bmore

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bmore is a filter that displays the contents of a binary file on the terminal, one screenful at a time. It normally pauses after each screenful, and prints --More-- at the bottom of the screen. bmore provides a two-line overlap between screens for continuity. If bmore is reading from a file rather than a pipe, the percentage of characters displayed so far is also shown.

bmore scrolls up to display one more screen line in response to a RETURN character; it displays another screenful in response to a SPACE character. Other commands are listed below.

The screen is divided in three sections or panes: The byte offset (extreme left), the hex pane (middle), and an ascii pane (right) which shows as printable characters those bytes in the hex pane (The colors are only on this page, bmore uses NO colors). On an 80 column terminal there will be sixteen hex values and their ASCII values on each screen line (can be changed with the -n option).

Note that (as one would expect) the first byte has the offset 0 (zero).

000000
00000C
000018
000024
000030
00003C
000048
000054
000060
*
00016C
000178
000184
000190
00009C

 7F 45 4C 46 01 01
 00 00 00 00 01 00
 00 00 00 00 00 00
 00 00 00 00 34 00
 0C 00 09 00 00 00
 00 00 00 00 55 89
 53 C7 45 A4 00 00
 00 00 00 83 7D 08
 8C 02 00 00 E9 6F

 00 00 00 00 6A 03
 45 08 50 E8 FC FF
 0C 85 D2 75 17 6A
 E9 43 02 00 00 8D
 0C 85 D2 75 0D C7

 01 00 00 00 00 00
 03 00 01 00 00 00
 00 00 0C 07 00 00
 00 00 00 00 28 00
 00 00 00 00 00 00
 E5 83 EC 68 57 56
 00 00 C7 45 A0 01
 00 75 13 6A 00 E8
 02 00 00 8D B4 26

 68 90 00 00 00 8B
 FF FF 89 C2 83 C4
 01 E8 60 02 00 00
 74 26 00 8D BC 27
 45 A0 00 00 00 00

 .ELF........
 ............
 ............
 ....4.....(.
 ............
 ....U....hWV
 S.E......E..
 ....}..u.j..
 .....o.....&

 ....j.h.....
 E.P.........
 ...u.j..`...
 .C....t&...'
 ...u..E.....

Equal lines will only displayed once, a star (*) is the placeholder for one or more lines equal to the line above.

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