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hexyl

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hexyl is a simple hex viewer for the terminal. It uses a colored output to distinguish different categories of bytes (NULL bytes, printable ASCII characters, ASCII whitespace characters, other ASCII characters and non-ASCII).

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License model

  • Free • Open Source

Country of Origin

  • DE flagGermany
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Linux
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Features

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  1.  Hexadecimal
  2.  Terminal-based

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  • hex-viewer

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  • alexandrezanni updated hexyl
    11 months ago
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    alexandrezanni added hexyl as alternative to huxdemp and hexxy
    11 months ago
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hexyl information

  • Developed by

    DE flagDavid Peter

  • Licensing

    Open Source (Apache-2.0) and Free product.

  • Written in

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    6 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Development

GitHub repository

  •  9,690 Stars
  •  242 Forks
  •  22 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jun 16, 2025 
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hexyl was added to AlternativeTo by David on Jun 25, 2019 and this page was last updated Aug 7, 2024.
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What is hexyl?

hexyl is a simple hex viewer for the terminal. It uses a colored output to distinguish different categories of bytes (NULL bytes, printable ASCII characters, ASCII whitespace characters, other ASCII characters and non-ASCII).

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