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A command-line hex viewer

13 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 3 stories, 10 comments · first 2019-01-09 · latest 2026-04-23

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  1. I really like hexyl [1], which does this by default. https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl
    comment by azalemeth · 2026-04-23 · in Your hex editor should color-code bytes
  2. …version of the cat command"; https://github.com/sharkdp/bat ), and hexyl (hex viewer; https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl ). (And certainly others I've missed!) Pointing this out because I myself appreciate comments that do this. For myself,…
    comment by ratrocket · 2024-11-19 · in Hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool
  3. I noticed hexyl wasn't on your list: https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl Your software seems to be in the same vein as hexyl. I can't personally vouch for how well it handles large files cause it's been a while, but I suspect it'll do alright.
    comment by jck · 2024-05-18 · in wxHexEditor — a Free Hex Editor / Disk Editor for Huge Files or Devices
  4. No such list is complete without hexyl! https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl
    comment by HellsMaddy · 2022-04-13 · in New(ish) command line tools
  5. You might be interested in https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl > hexyl is a simple hex viewer for the terminal. It uses a colored output to distinguish different categories of bytes (NULL bytes, printable ASCII characters, ASCII whitespace…
    comment by syoc · 2020-10-15 · in Reverse Engineer Amazon's Whispersync
  6. Fixed in v0.3.1 ( https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl/releases/tag/v0.3.1 ) :-)
    comment by sharkdp · 2019-01-10 · in Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer
  7. Thank you! See: https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl/issues/6
    comment by sharkdp · 2019-01-10 · in Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer
  8. …string for every single byte. That's a huge overhead. Edit: Turns out to be about 22% overhead, see https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl/pull/23 . Also it was 2 strings per byte, not 1.
    comment by eridius · 2019-01-10 · in Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer
  9. Please see: https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl/issues/9
    comment by sharkdp · 2019-01-09 · in Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer
  10. …ran it locally and it does print out offsets in a new left-most column. edit: Added in this commit: https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl/commit/91a119f4537f746045c8...
    comment by avidal · 2019-01-09 · in Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer