Linux cli command hexeditor

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NAME 🖥️ hexeditor 🖥️

Full screen curses Hex editor

SYNOPSIS

hexeditor [ filename ]

DESCRIPTION

Hexeditor is an editor to edit binary (or any) files or disks. The Display consists of the current offset from 0 (the first byte), the next sixteen bytes (aligned by bytes or 32-bit words), and its ASCII or EBCDIC text representation.

OPTIONS

-h, –help
Display help

-8, –highbit
Display 8-bit text

-a, –alltext
Display all text regardless that you know better

-b, –buffer
Buffer the entire file into memory. Faster, and enables insert and delete.

-d, –disk
File editing is a disk. OpenBSD and Linux only.

-f, –force
Force editing of a disk. Need this option to enable writing to disks.

-q, –quiet
Quiet Mode; Turn off all beeping.

-r, –readonly
Do not allow modifying the file

-v, –version
Display version number

Commands and keys

^A
Insert byte

Insert
Insert byte

^D
Delete byte

Delete
Delete byte

^E
viEw as text dump

^F
Page down

^V
Page down

Page Down
Page down

^B
Page Up

^Y
Page Up

Alt-V
Page Up

Page Up
Page Up

Tab
Switch from hex to text representation

^I
Switch from hex to text representation

^T
goTo offset

^G
Get help

^L
Redraw screen

^C
Quit without saving

^O
Save

^X
Save and Quit

^W
Search (text/hex)

^N
find Next

^U
Undo

^R
ASCII <=> EBCDIC

^P
Switch Spacings

^+
Binary Calculator

Author

Adam Rogoyski <[email protected]>

See Also

od (1)

BUGS

Editing disks is only supported in Linux and OpenBSD.

Please email Adam Rogoyski <[email protected]> with any bugs you might find. This man page is intentionally brief. Please Read the included documentation in Texinfo format for additional information

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