I am trying to print shell code with python but it adds a \x0a terminator. Is there a way to print without the terminator?
# cat test.py
print(b'\x41\x41\x41\x41')
# python test.py |xxd -g1
0000000: 41 41 41 41 0a AAAA.
# python test.py | wc
1 1 5
0x0A is a newline (LF, \n) which Python adds automatically to print statements.
For Python 3, use print(..., end="").
In Python 2, end the print statement with a comma like so:
print "abc",
However, Python will still try to print a newline when it exits. You may be better off using sys.stdout.write().
from __future__ import print_function and print will behave like python3
print "abc",, print "def" - there will be no newline (the space comes from the second print). I corrected my answer.sys.stdout.write() is the way to go for printing the hex bytes without a newline byte.