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).
... 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 hexylIf 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_0.8.0_amd64.deb # adapt version number and architectureIf you run Debian Buster or newer, you can install the officially maintained Debian package:
sudo apt-get install hexylIf you run an older version of Debian, see above for instructions on how to
manually install hexyl.
You can install hexyl from the official package repository:
pacman -S hexyl
xbps-install hexyl
Available in dm9pZCAq overlay
sudo eselect repository enable dm9pZCAq
sudo emerge --sync dm9pZCAq
sudo emerge sys-apps/hexyl::dm9pZCAq
brew install hexyl
pkg install hexyl
pkg install hexyl
or
apt install hexyl
nix-env -i hexyl
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).
Check out the release page for binary builds.
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).
If you have Rust 1.39 or higher, you can install hexyl from source via cargo:
cargo install hexyl
sudo snap install hexyl
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.