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vim-ale/hexyl
AJ ONeal 9f28505af7 ref: delete unreachable upstream-fetcher modules
Stacked on the modifications PR. Now that no live code path references
the per-package fetchers, the shared HTTP/parsing helpers, the
in-process normalizer, or the example template, delete them. Pure
deletion — no behavior change.

- ~93 per-package <pkg>/releases.js fetcher modules.
- _common/{brew,fetcher,git-tag,gitea,github,github-source,
  githubish,githubish-source}.js shared HTTP/parsing helpers.
- _webi/normalize.js in-process normalization layer (cache files
  arrive normalized from webicached).
- _example/releases.js fetcher template for new packages.

The Go cache daemon (webicached) is now the sole producer of release
metadata; the Node process never makes an upstream request.
2026-05-08 16:31:59 -06:00
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title, homepage, tagline
title homepage tagline
hexyl https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl hexyl is a simple hex viewer for the terminal.

To update or switch versions, run webi hexyl@stable (or @v0.9, @beta, etc).

Files

These are the files / directories that are created and/or modified with this install:

~/.config/envman/PATH.env
~/.local/bin/hexyl

Cheat Sheet

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).

hexyl is pretty self-explanatory.

If you know that you need a hex viewer, then you probably already know enough to see why this is particularly useful, and can figure out how to use it.

echo "hello" > foo.bin
hexyl foo.bin

For options, such as --length, --skip, and --offset, see:

hexyl --help

Convert hex to binary

If you have some hex (say from some server logs) that you'd like to encode back to binary to view in hexyl, you can convert it with xxd:

echo '48656c6c6f210a' > foo.hex
xxd -r -p foo.hex foo.bin