Hex editor for Linux (yes, I'm lazy)

**k0NG0** · 03-30-2007, 05:18 PM

Anyone have a suggestion for a good one. I've Googled a bit on this, and there are a bunch, but no conclusive answer as to which one to check out.

Tried the Gnome one (GHex) and it sucks (quite hard). Emacs has a hex mode, which is handy, but I want one that can convert from various bases and also knows about endianness.

Anyway, just throwing it out there to see if anyone bites. In Windows there's the lovely WinHex, and possibly I could Wine that sucker, but I haven't tried and I'm too tired now anyway (plus Wine on my ox-cranked clunker is about as quick as me, which is to say Grandma passes me with her walker and bum hip).

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swannema · 03-31-2007, 02:36 PM

HT Editor

I am not sure if that's what you are looking for.

**k0NG0** · 03-31-2007, 03:21 PM

Thanks. May be useful. It seems targeted towards binaries. I'm essentially on the (lazy) prowl for a pure hex editor, file-format agnostic. I'm poking at PDB debug files and planning to write a utility to dump symbols from them in *nix. (I almost never boot WinXP these days, and Wine is sloow).

Edit: so I'm lazy and blind, it seems. It does regular hex edits as well. I'll give it a whirl. Thanks again.

03-30-2007, 05:18 PM	#1
k0NG0 Remembering TQ Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Sweden Posts: 13,749	Hex editor for Linux (yes, I'm lazy) Anyone have a suggestion for a good one. I've Googled a bit on this, and there are a bunch, but no conclusive answer as to which one to check out. Tried the Gnome one (GHex) and it sucks (quite hard). Emacs has a hex mode, which is handy, but I want one that can convert from various bases and also knows about endianness. Anyway, just throwing it out there to see if anyone bites. In Windows there's the lovely WinHex, and possibly I could Wine that sucker, but I haven't tried and I'm too tired now anyway (plus Wine on my ox-cranked clunker is about as quick as me, which is to say Grandma passes me with her walker and bum hip). __________________ Use Firefox - "the one that blocks all the schmutz" Feeling multicore elation? Remember this correlation: Amdahl's Law.
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03-31-2007, 02:36 PM	#2
swannema ???????????????? Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 9,632	HT Editor I am not sure if that's what you are looking for. __________________ SUSE 11.2, KDE 4.3.4
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03-31-2007, 03:21 PM	#3
k0NG0 Remembering TQ Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Sweden Posts: 13,749	Thanks. May be useful. It seems targeted towards binaries. I'm essentially on the (lazy) prowl for a pure hex editor, file-format agnostic. I'm poking at PDB debug files and planning to write a utility to dump symbols from them in nix. (I almost never boot WinXP these days, and Wine is sloow). Edit: so I'm lazy and* blind, it seems. It does regular hex edits as well. I'll give it a whirl. Thanks again. __________________ Use Firefox - "the one that blocks all the schmutz" Feeling multicore elation? Remember this correlation: Amdahl's Law.
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