From 4af919369e872569dad5548882f8d86389235095 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Per=20J=C3=B8rgen=20Walstr=C3=B8m?=
 <per.jorgen.walstrom@nav.no>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:09:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] xxd: add -a for compact output example (#4990)

---
 pages/common/xxd.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pages/common/xxd.md b/pages/common/xxd.md
index f319ae04c..337607475 100644
--- a/pages/common/xxd.md
+++ b/pages/common/xxd.md
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@
 
 `xxd {{input_file}} {{output_file}}`
 
+- Display a more compact output, replacing consecutive zeros (if any) with a star:
+
+`xxd -a {{input_file}}`
+
 - Display the output with 10 columns of one octet (byte) each:
 
 `xxd -c {{10}} {{input_file}}`