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/v0.2.0/hexyl_0.2.0_amd64.deb"
sudo dpkg -i hexyl_0.2.0_amd64.deb

On Arch Linux

You can install hexyl from this AUR package:

yaourt -S 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.