https://github.com/FireyFly/hexd

🔍 Colourful, human-friendly hexdump tool
https://github.com/FireyFly/hexd

hexdump reverse-engineering

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🔍 Colourful, human-friendly hexdump tool

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/FireyFly/hexd
• Owner: FireyFly
• License: mit
• Created: 2013-12-08T17:37:06.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-02-18T11:57:04.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-26T03:01:42.850Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: hexdump, reverse-engineering
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 90.8 KB
• Stars: 158
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 10
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
**hexd** prints a human-readable hexdump of the specified files, or standard

input if omitted.  Its main distinguishing feature is the use of colours to

visually indicate which range of values an octet belongs to, aiding in

spotting patterns in binary data.

By default, *hexd* relies on 256-color SGR escape sequences.  Most terminal

emulators should support these today, but technically they're only defacto

standard.  However, you can override the formatting used with the

`HEXD_COLORS` environment variable (see manpage), or use the `-p` option for

plaintext output.

## Screenshot

![Screenshot](meta/screenshot.png "Output after being run on an ELF binary")

## License

MIT license.

## See also

* [pixd](http://github.com/FireyFly/pixd):

  like *hexd*, but visualizes the data fed to it using a 256-colour palette

  and half-block ("▀") characters.