HEXEDITOR(1)
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