Convert binary data to hexadecimal in a shell script

Question

I want to convert binary data to hexadecimal, just that, no fancy formatting and all. hexdump seems too clever, and it \"overformats\" for me. I want to take x

Answer 1

Perhaps use xxd:

% xxd -l 16 -p /dev/random
193f6c54814f0576bc27d51ab39081dc