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NAME¶
hexeditor - Full screen curses Hex editor
SYNOPSIS¶
hexeditor [ -8abdfgqrv ] [ 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 <apoc@laker.net>
See Also¶
od (1)
BUGS¶
Editing disks is only supported in Linux and OpenBSD.
Please email Adam Rogoyski <apoc@laker.net> with any bugs you might find. This man page is intentionally brief. Please Read the included documentation in Texinfo format for additional information