hexeditor(1) Full screen curses Hex editor

SYNOPSIS


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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