hexeditor - Full screen curses Hex editor
Contents
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
HEXEDITOR(1)
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
PageDown
Page down
^B Page Up
^Y Page Up
Alt-V Page Up
PageUp
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
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.
Name
hexeditor - Full screen curses Hex editor
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
See Also
od (1)
Synopsis
hexeditor [ -8abdfgqrv ] [ filename ]
