hex editor for huge files

[Miguel Gocobachi]

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!

-- 
-o )  Miguel Gocobachi
  / \ \ Software Engineer
  _\_V  www.gocobachi.dev

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