Terminal Hex Editors

A hex editor shows a file as raw bytes in hexadecimal beside an ASCII column, so any file can be read and changed whether or not it holds text.

 

In the terminal that covers hex dumps with color and grouping, editors that patch bytes in place, and viewers that decode the headers of known formats. They are used for reverse engineering, firmware and ROM work, repairing a corrupted file, and confirming what a program actually wrote to disk.

 

Below is a list of hex editors and byte viewers for the terminal.