SYNOPSIS

hexeditorfilename ]

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