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Show raw contents of a file or memory. When option --skip is given, ‘offset’ number of bytes are skipped from the start of the device or file given. And --length allows specifying a maximum number of bytes to be shown.
If given the special device named ‘(mem)’, then the ‘offset’ given to --skip is treated as the address of a memory location to dump from.
Note: The dumping of RAM memory (by the (mem) argument) is not allowed when when lockdown is enforced (see Lockdown). The dumping of disk or file data is allowed when lockdown is enforced.