I use hexer for this, which is an editor too.
http://blog.metaclassofnil.com/?p=757
There's also a vim mode for hex, which I use less often:
https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/2232/how-can-i-use-vi...
Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer
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Re: Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer
#22I admit, my first thought on seeing the title was "What's wrong with xxd?" This is nice! I like the colorization a lot -- it's like with source code, you don't realize how much you rely on the colors until you get a new computer and need to download syntax definitions for your editor again. Only feature I really think is missing is line numbers. Nicely done!
Looks like the screenshots on Github are outdated. I just 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...
Re: Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer
#23Is anyone aware of a React component that implements a decent hex viewer?
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#24What's wrong with hexdump?
It's not written in Rust.
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#25What's wrong with hexdump?
Nothing. It's doing fine. Thanks for asking.
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#26Needs a diff mode so that it can also replace vbindiff.
Re: Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer
#27This is great. The same author also wrote insect, which is cool, too. https://github.com/sharkdp/insect
Re: Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer
#28I use hexer for this, which is an editor too. http://blog.metaclassofnil.com/?p=757 There's also a vim mode for hex, which I use less often: https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/2232/how-can-i-use-vi...
One of the problems with vim+xxd (and many other hex editors) is that it loads the entire file, so you can't easily use it to look at large files (archives, disk images, etc).
Many moons ago I wrote a very bare bones ncurses hex viewer/editor, after not really being able to find one that fit my needs. I still use it pretty regularly: https://github.com/quo/hex.py
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
haha, had exactly the same thoughts. the colours really makes it much much easier on the eyes to recognise things. well done!
Same thought except, I wonder why this isn’t a patch to xxd?
I'm struggling to even find the canonical source code for xxd, let alone a way to provide a patch. You could probably email the address in the man page, but that's from 1997 so I wouldn't be too optimistic about getting a response. And even then it's quite likely that the original author considers xxd finished and would be reluctant to accept patches for it anyway. On top of all that the hard part of this work (cross-platform terminal colours) had already been done for the author, so the implementation was probably far easier than adding colour output to xxd would have been.
Re: Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer
#30why am i seeing ugly background-colors with rxvt-unicode https://imgur.com/a/qkzAkqR instead of the good foreground colors I see in xfce4-terminal https://imgur.com/a/LY6bPn9
i do seem to have 256 colors in urxvt my $TERM is rxvt-256color and i have rxvt-unicode-256color installed