Can someone recommend a hex editor?

curmudgeon · Veteran Joined: 08 Aug 2003 Posts: 1741

Several choices out there, and I don't know anything about them.

I just want something to look inside binary files with maybe the
ability to view data in alternate ways (and make an occasional
change).

Thank you for your suggestions.

ecatmur · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:42 pm Post subject:

It really depends on what you want.

ghex is a nice Gnome application; khexedit is OK if you use KDE; also look at lfhex.

app-editors/hexedit is a curses app, as is app-editors/hexcurse.

http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/usr_23.html#23.4 describes how to edit binary files in vim; without a doubt emacs has a hex mode.
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