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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@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!