bed arises from a very peculiar need of mine where i require certain operations to be performed on binary data. these include: extracting a range of bytes, splitting entire data given a byte pattern and more as i require.
bed -h
returns the usage for bed- running
make
builds it
bed is being used in a file format reverse engineering project that i've undertaken. for example, the split feature in particular, is useful to separate a file in chunks given a delimiter. this can help in isolating sections in a file.