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 <[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