3 homepage: https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl
5 hexyl is a simple hex viewer for the terminal.
8 To update or switch versions, run `webi hexyl@stable` (or `@v0.9`, `@beta`,
13 ![](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/1f71ee7031e1962b23f21c8cc89cb837e1201238/68747470733a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f4d574f3975534c2e706e67)
15 > It uses a colored output to distinguish different categories of bytes (NULL
16 > bytes, printable ASCII characters, ASCII whitespace characters, other ASCII
17 > characters and non-ASCII).
19 `hexyl` is pretty self-explanatory.
21 If you know that you need a _hex viewer_, then you probably already know enough
22 to see why this is particularly useful, and can figure out how to use it.
25 echo "hello" > foo.bin
29 For options, such as `--length`, `--skip`, and `--offset`, see:
35 ### Convert hex to binary
37 If you have some hex (say from some server logs) that you'd like to encode back
38 to binary to view in hexyl, you can convert it with `xxd`:
41 echo '48656c6c6f210a' > foo.hex
42 xxd -r -p foo.hex foo.bin