NAME

chexedit - Full screen curses Hex editor

SYNOPSIS

chexedit [ -8abdfgqrv ] [ filename ]

DESCRIPTION

Chexedit 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.

OPTIONS

-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

Commands and keys

^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

Author

Adam Rogoyski <apoc@laker.net>

BUGS

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