#!/usr/bin/env python3

# rawcat 1 999 /path/to/file

from sys import argv

print('argv:')
print(argv)

mode = int(argv[1])
num = int(argv[2])
path = argv[3]

if mode == 0:
    with open(path, 'rb') as f:
        raw = f.read(num)
if mode == 1:
    with open(path, 'rb') as f:
        raw = f.read(num).decode('utf-8', 'ignore')
if mode == 2:
    with open(path) as f:
        raw = f.read(num)

print('raw:')
print([raw])