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Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width c... by pavelbr on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @12:16PM (#16756171)
Is `hexdump` not `xxd`?
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Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width c... by lainga on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @12:58PM (#16756606)
`hexdump` is part of util-linux, `xxd` is not. They do the same thing though, up to formatting differences.
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Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width c... by dotancohen on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @01:14PM (#16756798)
And on Debian it's called `hd`.
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Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width c... by gkya on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @04:16PM (#16758599)
xxd is part of vim IIRC.
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Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width c... by na85 on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:05PM (#16761457)
Nope.

https://linux.die.net/man/1/xxd

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Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width c... by gkya on Thursday April 05, 2018 @09:40AM (#16764790)
Yep:

  $ apt-cache show xxd | grep Source:
  Source: vim (2:8.0.1453-1)
  Source: vim
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Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width c... by na85 on Thursday April 05, 2018 @11:23AM (#16765729)
Oh I must've misunderstood what you meant by "part of" vim.
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