This is a small little program used to execute a bad practice a clean way :-)

It will read a file on stdin and write it as decimal integers on stdout,
this is useful for embedding files in c-sources.

There are a few places where this is needed, and this is a better way than
the current practice of hand-editing the sources.

The command:

date | file2c 'const char date[] = {' ',0};'

will produce:

const char date[] = {
83,97,116,32,74,97,110,32,50,56,32,49,54,58,52,55,58,51,51,32,80,83,84,
32,49,57,57,53,10
,0};

The manual page is 2 lines longer than the source :-)

1 files changed, 46 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/usr.bin/file2c/file2c.c b/usr.bin/file2c/file2c.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0bad904
--- /dev/null
+++ b/usr.bin/file2c/file2c.c
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+/*
+ * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * "THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 42):
+ * <phk@login.dknet.dk> wrote this file.  As long as you retain this notice you
+ * can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day, and you think
+ * this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return.   Poul-Henning Kamp
+ * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ *
+ * $Id$
+ *
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+int
+main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+    int i,j,k;
+    char s[10];
+
+    if (argc > 1)
+        printf("%s\n",argv[1]);
+    k = 0;
+    j = 0;
+    while((i = getchar()) != EOF) {
+	if(k++) {
+	    putchar(',');
+	    j++;
+	}
+	if (j > 70) {
+	    putchar('\n');
+	    j = 0;
+	}
+	printf("%d",i);
+	if (i > 99)
+	    j += 3;
+	else if (i > 9)
+	    j += 2;
+	else
+	    j++;
+    }
+    putchar('\n');
+    if (argc > 2)
+        printf("%s\n",argv[2]);
+    return 0;
+}