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hexyl is a hex viewer for the terminal. It uses a colored output to distinguish different categories
of bytes (NULL bytes, printable ASCII characters, ASCII whitespace characters, other ASCII characters and non-ASCII).
Preview
Color Reference
| Type of Byte | Color | ANSI Code |
|---|---|---|
| NULL |  Bright Black | 90 |
| OFFSET | Bright Black | 90 |
| ASCII Printable |  Cyan | 36 |
| ASCII Whitespace |  Green | 32 |
| ASCII Other | Green | 32 |
| Non-ASCII |  Yellow | 33 |
Colors taken from the Ubuntu terminal color scheme, they could look different in your terminal
Installation
On Ubuntu
... and other Debian-based Linux distributions.
If you run Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) or newer, you can install the officially maintained package:
sudo apt install hexyl
If you use an older version of Ubuntu, you can download
the latest .deb package from the release page and install it via:
sudo dpkg -i hexyl_0.15.0_amd64.deb # adapt version number and architecture
On Debian
If you run Debian Buster or newer, you can install the officially maintained Debian package:
sudo apt-get install hexyl
If you run an older version of Debian, see above for instructions on how to
manually install hexyl.
On Fedora
If you run Fedora 35 or newer, you can install the officially maintained Fedora package:
sudo dnf install hexyl
On Arch Linux
You can install hexyl from the official package repository:
pacman -S hexyl
On Void Linux
xbps-install hexyl
On Gentoo Linux
Available in dm9pZCAq overlay
sudo eselect repository enable dm9pZCAq
sudo emerge --sync dm9pZCAq
sudo emerge sys-apps/hexyl::dm9pZCAq
On macOS
Via Homebrew:
brew install hexyl
...or via MacPorts:
sudo port install hexyl
On FreeBSD
pkg install hexyl
On NetBSD
pkgin install hexyl
On OpenBSD
doas pkg_add hexyl
on Termux
pkg install hexyl
or
apt install hexyl
Via Nix
nix-env -i hexyl
Via Guix
guix package -i hexyl
Or add the hexyl package in the list of packages to be installed in your system configuration (e.g., /etc/config.scm).
On other distributions
Check out the release page for binary builds.
On Windows
Check out the release page for binary builds.
Alternatively, install from source via cargo, snap or scoop (see below).
Make sure that you use a terminal that supports ANSI escape sequences (like ConHost v2 since Windows 10 1703
or Windows Terminal since Windows 10 1903).
Via cargo
If you have Rust 1.56 or higher, you can install hexyl from source via cargo:
cargo install hexyl
Alternatively, you can install hexyl directly from the repository by using:
git clone https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl
cargo install --path ./hexyl
Note: To convert the man page, you will need Pandoc.
You can convert from Markdown by using (in the project root):
pandoc -s -f markdown -t man -o ./doc/hexyl.1 ./doc/hexyl.1.md
Via snap package
sudo snap install hexyl
Via Scoop
scoop install hexyl
License
Licensed under either of
- Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.