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Manual Reference Pages  - HEXEDIT (1)

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hexedit - Full screen curses Hex editor

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Synopsis
Description
Options
Commands and keys
Author
Bugs

    hexedit [ -8abdfgqrv ] [ filename ]

Hexedit is an editor to edit binary (or any) files or disks. The Display consists of the current offset from 0 (the first byte), the next sixteen bytes (aligned by bytes or 32-bit words), and it’s ASCII or EBCDIC text representation.

-h, --help
	Display help
-8, --highbit
	Display 8-bit text
-a, --alltext
	Display all text regardless that you know better
-b, --buffer
	Buffer the entire file into memory. Faster, and enables insert and delete.
-d, --disk
	File editing is a disk. OpenBSD and Linux only.
-f, --force
	Force editing of a disk. Need this option to enable writing to disks.
-q, --quiet
	Quiet Mode; Turn off all beeping.
-r, --readonly
	Do not allow modifying the file
-v, --version
	Display version number

^A	Insert byte
Insert	Insert byte
^D	Delete byte
Delete	Delete byte
^E	viEw as text dump
^F	Page down
^V	Page down
Page Down
	Page down
^B	Page Up
^Y	Page Up
Alt-V	Page Up
Page Up
	Page Up
Tab	Switch from hex to text representation
^I	Switch from hex to text representation
^T	goTo offset
^G	Get help
^L	Redraw screen
^C	Quit without saving
^O	Save
^X	Save and Quit
^W	Search (text/hex)
^N	find Next
^U	Undo
^R	ASCII <=> EBCDIC
^P	Switch Spacings
^+	Binary Calculator

Adam Rogoyski <apoc@laker.net>

od (1)

Editing disks is only supported in Linux and OpenBSD.

Please email Adam Rogoyski <apoc@laker.net> with any bugs you might find. This man page is intentionally brief. Please Read the included documentation in Texinfo format for additional information
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