CHEXEDIT(1)

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>

See Also
od (1)

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