File Format Tools

Installation

brew install FileFormatInfo/homebrew-tap/fftools

Or download from Releases

Programs

• asciify: converts to ASCII using anyascii
• asciitable: prints out an table of ASCII characters
• bytecount: counts the number of occurrences of each byte
• certinfo: print info about an x509 (aka SSL/HTTPS) certificate
• ghash: calculate file hashes
• hexdumpc: generate canonical hexdump (hexdump -C) output in case you don't have [hexdump`] (https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/hexdump.1.html) installed
• hosty: manipulate hostnames
• jsonfmt: format JSON (expanded, canonical, line, fractured)
• unhexdump: convert hexdump -c output back into binary
• unicount: count Unicode codepoints in a file
• uniwhat: print the names of each Unicode character in a file
• urly: manipulate URLs

Experiments

• wombat - tests terminal screen functions

Credits

• goreleaser

To Do

• body: prints specific lines of a file (in between head and tail)
• bom-defuse: remove byte-order-marks (BOMs) from files
• purify: remove high bytes | non-UTF8 | non-ASCII | etc
• trilobyte: translates bytes according to a map
• trune: translates Unicode codepoints (runes) according to a map
• uncolor: remove color codes (or all terminal escapes) from stdin (see unansi.c)
• ustrings: like the standard strings utility, but with Unicode support
• utf8ify: convert to UTF-8 (also see unormalize)
• xmlfmt: pretty print xml
• yamlfmt: pretty print yaml

General