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vim-ale/hexyl
AJ ONeal 0861ebc8b8 ref(releases.conf): collapse source/owner/repo into single keys
Source type is now inferred from the primary key:
  github_repo = owner/repo   (was source=github + owner + repo)
  git_url = https://...      (was source=gittag + url)
  gitea_repo = owner/repo    (was source=gitea + owner + repo)
  hashicorp_product = name   (was source=hashicorp + product)

One-off dist sources (nodedist, zigdist, etc.) keep the explicit
source= key since they're already one-liners.

Parser still accepts the old format via the default fallback branch.
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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