hxed

A lightweight command-line hex viewer in C with focused colors, heatmaps, entropy, search, string mode, and clean pipe support.

Key features:

• Classic Layout: Perfectly aligned hex bytes, addresses, and ASCII preview
• Flexible Grouping: Group bytes with -g for faster pattern scanning in dense dumps
• Raw Output Mode: Raw output to a file or to a pipe
• Adaptive Heatmaps: Visualize byte ranges with 16-color adaptiv or fixed modes
• Semantic Coloring: Instantly distinguish printable text, null bytes, and control characters
• String Highlighting: Specialized mode to make embedded strings pop
• Entropy Meter: Real-time Shannon entropy bar per line — spot encryption/compression instantly
• Pattern Search: Match bytes via -se in a:, x:, d:, or b: format
• Header + Footer Analysis: Toggle file metadata and magic byte detection with -th
• Ultra Flexible: Custom widths, offsets, and limits for surgical binary inspection
• Pipe Ready: Seamless stdin support with built-in pager integration (less/more)
• Cross-Platform: Native performance on Linux, macOS, and Windows