Good answer, but I prefer od for this purpose, as it gives you much greater control over the format of the output. In most cases you want printable characters, not 16-bit hex numbers.

% od -c
0000000   C   P   A   N   :   :   M   e   t   a  \r  \n   E   x   t   
+U
0000020   t   i   l   s   :   :   B   u   i   l   d   e   r  \r  \n   
+E
0000040   x   t   U   t   i   l   s   :   :   B   u   i   l   d   e   
+r
0000060   :   :   C   o   m   p   i   l   e   r  \r  \n   E   x   t   
+U
0000100   t   i   l   s   :   :   C   o   n   f   i   g  \r  \n   E   
+x
0000120   t   U   t   i   l   s   :   :   H   e   l   p   e   r   s  \
+r
0000140  \n   E   x   t   U   t   i   l   s   :   :   I   n   s   t   
+a
0000160   l   l   P   a   t   h   s  \r  \n   G   e   t   o   p   t   
+:
0000200   :   L   o   n   g  \r  \n   L   i   s   t   :   :   U   t   
+i
0000220   l  \r  \n   T   A   P   :   :   H   a   r   n   e   s   s  \
+r
0000240  \n
0000241
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