1.\"---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.\" "THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 42): 3.\" <phk@FreeBSD.org> wrote this file. As long as you retain this notice, you 4.\" can do whatever you want with this file. If we meet some day, and you think 5.\" this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return. Poul-Henning Kamp 6.\" --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.\" 8.\" $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/file2c/file2c.1,v 1.6.2.4 2001/08/16 13:16:48 ru Exp $ 9.\" $DragonFly: src/usr.bin/file2c/file2c.1,v 1.2 2003/06/17 04:29:26 dillon Exp $ 10.\" 11.Dd January 28, 1995 12.Dt FILE2C 1 13.Os 14.Sh NAME 15.Nm file2c 16.Nd convert file to c-source 17.Sh SYNOPSIS 18.Nm 19.Op "string" 20.Op "string" 21.Sh DESCRIPTION 22The 23.Nm 24utility reads a file from stdin and writes it to stdout, converting each 25byte to its decimal representation on the fly. 26.Pp 27If the first 28.Op string 29is present, it is printed before the data; if the second 30.Op string 31is present, it is printed after the data. 32.Pp 33This program is used to embed binary or other files into C source files, 34for instance as a char[]. 35.Sh EXAMPLES 36The command: 37.Bd -literal -offset indent 38date | file2c 'const char date[] = {' ',0};' 39.Ed 40.Pp 41will produce: 42.Bd -literal -offset indent 43const char date[] = { 4483,97,116,32,74,97,110,32,50,56,32,49,54,58,50,56,58,48,53, 4532,80,83,84,32,49,57,57,53,10 46,0}; 47.Ed 48