CentOS - Jul 2020 - hex editor for huge files

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hexpeek: a hex editor for huge files

Occasionally I need to work with huge binary files. Over the years I've
tried many different tools and never found one that was exactly what I
wanted. In my experience most hex editors either (1) do not work well
with 4GB+ files or (2) require the user to learn a curses interface and
are not scriptable.

So I ended up creating a hex editor with some nice features:
     1. prompt interface with command history (with libedit)
     2. scriptable interface with a flexible command language
     3. no glitches on huge files -- no reading until user requests
     4. fully functional insert and delete
     5. multi-level backup and restore
     6. ability to dump generic file descriptors
     7. work in hexadecimal and with 64 bit file offsets by default
     8. BSD 3-clause license
     9. and more...

If interested, please check out the project at https://www.hexpeek.com
or send e-mail to hexpeek at hexpeek.com.

hexpeek is known to work on Debian, CentOS, FreeBSD, and Cygwin and is
expected to work on any recent POSIX-like system. I look forward to
improving hexpeek based on community feedback. Please let me know what
features you are looking for in a hex/metadata editor.

About the author: visit https://www.resiliware.com for more about me.

Thanks for reading!
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> hexpeek: a hex editor for huge files
>
> Occasionally I need to work with huge binary files. Over the years I've
> tried many different tools and never found one that was exactly what I
> wanted. In my experience most hex editors either (1) do not work well
> with 4GB+ files or (2) require the user to learn a curses interface and
> are not scriptable.
Hi,

Thanks for the tool, I've created RPMs of it:

http://www.invoca.ch/pub/packages/hexpeek/

Regards,
Simon

On 2020-07-10 10:10, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the tool, I've created RPMs of it:
> 
> http://www.invoca.ch/pub/packages/hexpeek/
> 
> Regards,
> Simon
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You're welcome and thank you.
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On 7/10/20 4:10 PM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote:
> Thanks for the tool, I've created RPMs of it:
>
> http://www.invoca.ch/pub/packages/hexpeek/
The package generates a symlink /usr/bin/hexedit to /usr/bin/hexpeek, 
but this is in conflict with the package hexedit which is in base of 
Centos 7.

Mogens

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