---
name: "hexeditor"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ncurses-hexedit"
version: "0.9.7+orig-7.3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/hexeditor"
---

# hexeditor(1)

Full screen curses Hex editor

## 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