hexyl is a terminal hex viewer designed to make raw binary data easier to inspect. It uses colour to distinguish null bytes, printable ASCII characters, whitespace, other ASCII characters and non-ASCII data.
The display is highly configurable. Users can choose how byte values are represented, how they are grouped, which character table is used and whether several data panels are shown. Input can be read from a file or standard input, making hexyl useful both interactively and as part of command pipelines.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Uses colour to distinguish different categories of bytes.
- Reads data from files or standard input.
- Limits output to a specified number of bytes.
- Skips forward from the start of input or uses negative offsets relative to the end of a file.
- Accepts decimal and binary size units as well as hexadecimal values for lengths and offsets.
- Collapses repeated groups of identical lines unless squeezing is disabled.
- Offers Unicode, ASCII or borderless display styles.
- Adds an arbitrary value to displayed file offsets without changing the data being read.
- Displays byte values in binary, octal, decimal or hexadecimal form.
- Controls how many bytes are grouped together and supports little- and big-endian display.
- Supports configurable numbers of data panels and adapts output to terminal width.
- Offers character tables including ASCII, Code Page 437, EBCDIC and Braille-oriented display.
- Can hide the character or position panels for a more compact display.
- Allows colours to be customised through environment variables, including RGB values.
- Honours the NO_COLOR convention when colour output is unwanted.
- Can print its colour table for reference.
- Provides functionality that can also be used as a Rust library.
Website: github.com/sharkdp/hexyl
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Developer: David Peter
License: Apache License 2.0 / MIT License
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Read our verdict in the software roundup.
| Alternatives to hexdump | |
|---|---|
| hexyl | Colored command-line hex viewer |
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| hexedit | View and edit hexadecimal files |
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