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#2317 in Command line utilities
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hextool
Simple command line tool for converting strings to hex and hex to string. Written in Rust!
This is my personal tool intended to be used for CTFs. I am aware that tools like hex
and unhex
already exist.
However, I want to strengthen my Rust skills, therefore, I decided to make my own implementation and eventually distribute it to crates.io
.
Installation
For now the only way to install hextool
command line tool is through cargo
cargo install hextool
Usage
Commandline tool to convert hex to string and string to hex
Usage: hextool <COMMAND>
Commands:
hex Change input to hex
unhex Change input from hex
help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
Options:
-h, --help Print help
-V, --version Print version
hextool as lib
hextool
could also be used as a library for your rust projects. You can do so by adding it to your cargo.toml
[dependencies]
hextool = { version = "version", default-features = false }
Usage
With hextool
you can use Hex
and UnHex
to convert strings from and to hex strings.
Convert trait
Both Hex
and UnHex
implements this trait. This trait has a function called convert
and it has the following parameters. It's important to know these parameters because it changes how the output.
fn convert(input: &str, numeric: bool, split: bool) -> String
input
- The input to convertnumeric
- If set to true, the input will be considered as a numeric value.- If the input value turns out to be a non-numeric value, the implementation will return a string containing a matching error message.
split
- If set to true, the output will be split in bytes.- For
Hex
this will separate the converted input to bytes.aa
->61 61
- For
UnHex
this will separate the converted hex to a single ascii.6161
->a a
- For
Converting string to hex
use hextool::{Hex, Convert};
// Convert a string to hex
let hex = Hex::convert("hello", false, false);
println!("hello in hex: {}", hex);
// #=> "hello in hex: 68656c6c6f"
// You can also split the output in bytes
let hex = Hex::convert("hello", false, true);
println!("hello in hex: {}", hex);
// #=> "hello in hex: 68 65 6c 6c 6f"
// Convert a string with numeric flag. This will take the numerical value of the string.
// If the string is not a number, it will return an error.
let hex = Hex::convert("255", true, false);
println!("255 in hex: {}", hex);
// #=> "255 in hex: {ff}"
Converting hex to string
use hextool::{UnHex, Convert};
// Convert a hex string to a string
let unhex = UnHex::convert("68656c6c6f", false, false);
println!("68656c6c6f in string: {}", unhex);
// #=> "68656c6c6f in string: hello"
// Convert a hex string to a string with numeric flag. This will take the numerical value of the string.
let unhex = UnHex::convert("cafebabe", true, false);
println!("cafebabe in string: {}", unhex);
// #=> "cafebabe in string: 3405691582"
// If numeric is set to false, only valid strings [0-9a-f] is accepted. If the string is not valid,
// it will return the string with the invalid string highlighted to red.
let unhex = UnHex::convert("aga", true, false);
println!("{}", unhex);
// #=> "The highlighted chars can't be converted:\nag\u{1b}[31ma\u{1b}[0m."
Dependencies
~3.5–5MB
~88K SLoC