hexyl is a simple 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).
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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:
If you use an older version of Ubuntu, you can download
the latest .deb package from the release page and install it via:
On Debian
If you run Debian Buster or newer, you can install the officially maintained Debian package:
If you run an older version of Debian, see above for instructions on how to
manually install hexyl.
On Arch Linux
You can install hexyl from the official package repository:
pacman -S hexyl
On macOS
brew install hexyl
On FreeBSD
pkg install hexyl
Via Nix
nix-env -i hexyl
On other distributions
Check out the release page for binary builds.
On Windows
For now, you will have to install from source via cargo (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 1.31 or higher, you can install hexyl from source via cargo:
cargo install hexyl
License
Licensed under either of
- Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.