hex editor for huge files

[hexpeek at hexpeek.com]

Thank you. I will look into formally adding it to the ports tree
based on community interest.

On 2020-07-07 14:36, Miguel Gocobachi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First of all. Thanks for sharing. If you want to add this program to
> the FreeBSD ports, I made the diff for you, so you can be the
> maintainer.
> 
> https://bsd.to/dEwd
> 
> just go ahead and make a new bug at https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/
> 
> 
> enjoy!
> 
> 
> On 7/7/20 9:38 AM, hexpeek at hexpeek.com wrote:
>> 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!