Escape ASCII

An extremely tiny tool to convert stdin raw byte stream to printable escaped-ascii form, such as byte literals in source codes on many programming languages (e.g. "\x1b\x04printable\x16\n").

This tool just help calling the rust function slice::escape_ascii directly from command line.
For more information about how this tool converts, check the rust official documentations of std::ascii::escape_default.

Install

$ cargo install escape-ascii

Example

• Get random 10 bytes and convert to escaped-ascii form

$ BYTES="$(cat /dev/urandom | head -c10)"
$ printf "%s" "$BYTES"; echo
��f�YڵH
$ printf "%s" "$BYTES" | escape-ascii; echo
\x8a\x8bf\xa1\x8f\x08Y\xda\xb5H

Author

Kim Hwiwon <kim.hwiwon@outlook.com>

License

The MIT License (MIT)