More from the "things you'd learn if you read the manual" department, although the manual as currently written is a little esoteric on this feature of hexdump.

$ hexdump -e ' [iterations]/[byte_count] "[format string]" '

As you might guess, this means apply format string to groups of byte_count bytes, iterations times. Format string is like printf.

You can of course chain multiple formats together, or put them in a file. So say you needed to clag some binary data into a C array, a-la firmware for loading into a driver. You could use

$ hexdump -v -e '6/4 "0x%08x, "' -e '"\n"' ./dump

to get something that fits in 80 columns and is almost ready to go.

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