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).

Preview

Installation

On Debian-based systems

wget "https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl/releases/download/v0.3.0/hexyl_0.3.0_amd64.deb"
sudo dpkg -i hexyl_0.3.0_amd64.deb

On Arch Linux

You can install hexyl from this AUR package:

yay -S hexyl

On macOS

brew install hexyl

On FreeBSD

pkg install hexyl

On other distributions

Check out the release page for binary builds.

Via cargo

If you have Rust 1.29 or higher, you can install hexyl from source via cargo:

cargo install hexyl

License

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.