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Converts any file to C char array to embed as resource.
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Convert any file to formatted string of hex characters

#!/usr/bin/bash
hexdump -v -e '16/1 "_x%02X" "\n"' $1 | sed 's/_/\\/g; s/\\x  //g; s/.*/    "&"/'

The output can then be copied and assigned to a const char * in a header/source file and referenced as a normal string.

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