bits not for bits
Performs logical negation on each bit.
Signature
> bits not {flags}
Flags
-
--signed, -s: Always treat input number as a signed number. -
--number-bytes, -n {int}: The size of unsigned number in bytes, it can be 1, 2, 4, 8, auto.
Input/output types:
| input | output |
|---|---|
| int | int |
| binary | binary |
| list<int> | list<int> |
| list<binary> | list<binary> |
Examples
Apply logical negation to a list of numbers
> [4 3 2] | bits not ╭───┬─────╮ │ 0 │ 251 │ │ 1 │ 252 │ │ 2 │ 253 │ ╰───┴─────╯
Apply logical negation to a list of numbers, treat input as 2 bytes number
> [4 3 2] | bits not --number-bytes 2 ╭───┬───────╮ │ 0 │ 65531 │ │ 1 │ 65532 │ │ 2 │ 65533 │ ╰───┴───────╯
Apply logical negation to a list of numbers, treat input as signed number
> [4 3 2] | bits not --signed ╭───┬────╮ │ 0 │ -5 │ │ 1 │ -4 │ │ 2 │ -3 │ ╰───┴────╯
Apply logical negation to binary data
> 0x[ff 00 7f] | bits not Length: 3 (0x3) bytes | null_char printable whitespace ascii_other non_ascii 00000000: 00 ff 80 0××
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