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.\" 10.Dd January 28, 1995 11.Dt FILE2C 1 12.Os 13.Sh NAME 14.Nm file2c 15.Nd convert file to c-source 16.Sh SYNOPSIS 17.Nm 18.Op "string" 19.Op "string" 20.Sh DESCRIPTION 21The 22.Nm 23utility reads a file from stdin and writes it to stdout, converting each 24byte to its decimal representation on the fly. 25.Pp 26If the first 27.Op string 28is present, it is printed before the data; if the second 29.Op string 30is present, it is printed after the data. 31.Pp 32This program is used to embed binary or other files into C source files, 33for instance as a char[]. 34.Sh EXAMPLES 35The command: 36.Bd -literal -offset indent 37date | file2c 'const char date[] = {' ',0};' 38.Ed 39.Pp 40will produce: 41.Bd -literal -offset indent 42const char date[] = { 4383,97,116,32,74,97,110,32,50,56,32,49,54,58,50,56,58,48,53, 4432,80,83,84,32,49,57,57,53,10 45,0}; 46.Ed 47