Hexedit is a very powerful tool that shows a file both in ASCII and in hexadecimal. On Linux system, vi/vim can only modify ASCII files, however, Hexedit can modify not only ASCII files but also binary files.
The link http://rigaux.org/hexedit.html shows how to use it.
On CentOS 5.5 system, I cannot use yum to install it(but it can be installed by yum on Fedora 15). The below are installation steps.
# wget http://rigaux.org/hexedit-1.2.12.src.tgz
# gunzip hexedit-1.2.12.src.tgz
# tar xvf hexedit-1.2.12.src.tar
# cd hexedit
# ./configure
# make
# make install
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Wow what a mess Linux is. Windows = just run the Hexedit installer.
By: Anonymous on October 11, 2011
at 9:49 am