HEXEDITOR

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

ˆA

Insert byte

Insert

Insert byte

ˆD

Delete byte

Delete

Delete byte

	ˆE		viEw as text dump
	ˆF		Page down
	ˆV		Page down

Page Down

Page down

	ˆB		Page Up
	ˆY		Page Up
	Alt-V		Page Up

Page Up

Page Up

	Tab		Switch from hex to text representation
	ˆI		Switch from hex to text representation
	ˆT		goTo offset
	ˆG		Get help
	ˆL		Redraw screen
	ˆC		Quit without saving
	ˆO		Save
	ˆX		Save and Quit
	ˆW		Search (text/hex)
	ˆN		find Next
	ˆU		Undo
	ˆR		ASCII <=> EBCDIC
	ˆP		Switch Spacings
	ˆ+		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