walterdejong / hexview

interactive hex file viewer

hexview

Interactive console mode hex viewer

For the love of console programs ... this hex viewer looks a lot like a classic DOS program, and/but its user interface is somewhat inspired by the vim editor. For example, get built-in help by typing ':help'. You don't need to hit Esc like you would in vim.

Using hexview

You can search text by pressing '/' and search backwards with the '?' command, and you may search hexadecimal strings with 'x'. Jump to a particular offset using '@'. Use the arrow keys for recalling search and address history.

Use the number keys '1', '2', and '4' to select different views: bytes, words, and quads.

Hit 'p' to toggle the printing the values in the subwindow at the bottom. There's much more, so be sure to read the :help.

hexview can examine files as large as 256 TiB. I haven't been able to verify this though ...

Starting hexview

If you don't like colors, hexview may be started with:

hexview.py --no-color

See hexview.py --help for more options.

Installing hexview

Run the following command in a terminal:

python setup.py install

or use setup.py bdist to create a package.

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Copyright 2016 by Walter de Jong [email protected]