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Re: Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 09, 2019, 6:09 PM UTC

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Re: Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer

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Post by farmerbb » Wed, Jan 09, 2019, 6:09 PM UTC

I've personally found vbindiff excellent for viewing files as hex: https://www.cjmweb.net/vbindiff/

Re: Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer

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Post by gpm » Wed, Jan 09, 2019, 6:15 PM UTC

xbryanx wrote: post #44

Sorry to ask, but what is he use case for a hex viewer like this? What are the kinds of projects you might be working on when you use something like this?

Your lab manager goes "hey, can you generate these proprietary binary files (currently made with a horrible gui) to control this robot programmatically".

Re: Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer

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Post by heliostatic » Wed, Jan 09, 2019, 6:19 PM UTC

For something with a little more firepower, I like: https://github.com/evanmiller/hecate

Re: Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer

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Post by unbendable » Wed, Jan 09, 2019, 6:23 PM UTC

xbryanx wrote: post #44

Sorry to ask, but what is he use case for a hex viewer like this? What are the kinds of projects you might be working on when you use something like this?

So i have been working on an embedded project lately where i had to export the framebuffer to an sd Card. I used a raw Format first (netppm) and had to use vim in hex Mode to validate the header. So this is really neat. I was looking for an padding option in the readme but i guess i ll have to install it later

Re: Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer

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Post by jbtule » Wed, Jan 09, 2019, 6:27 PM UTC

I wish it would work with less or have less like features, taking the first n bytes is okay, but pretty minimal.

Re: Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer

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Post by xvilka » Wed, Jan 09, 2019, 6:45 PM UTC

It is possible to use also radare2[1] for this, along with radiff2. It provides more options and has zero external dependencies.

[1] https://github.com/radare/radare2

Re: Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer

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Post by IWeldMelons » Wed, Jan 09, 2019, 6:52 PM UTC

I guess I am too old, but I use mcview. Or HIEW.

Re: Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer

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Post by twic » Wed, Jan 09, 2019, 6:55 PM UTC

One ludicrous nitpick: the logo doesn't show anything hexyl, that's 1,2,3,5-tetramethylbenzene. If it was a functional group, it might be 3,4,5-trimethylbenzyl or something like that.

Hexyl would look like:

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Re: Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer

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Post by sharkdp » Wed, Jan 09, 2019, 7:04 PM UTC

platz wrote: post #30

why 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

Please see: https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl/issues/9