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I want to view and edit hex data of specific files in linux. What would be a good program (open source preferred) which is able to do that and is compatible with most linux distros?

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You can use GHex or Bless. I would recommend Bless. You can edit both raw data and hexadecimal data.

If you use Ubuntu you can install it with sudo apt-get install bless.

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  • Hmm I cant seem to be able to install it says it needs packages from unauthenticated sources.
    – user2505
    Apr 20, 2014 at 12:37
  • What Linux distro / version are you running?
    – Cornelius
    Apr 20, 2014 at 12:41
  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
    – user2505
    Apr 20, 2014 at 12:42
  • Install the getdeb package, do a 'sudo apt-get update' and try again. Hopefully that should do it. I have installed it with no problems in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
    – Cornelius
    Apr 20, 2014 at 12:45
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From Need a good hex editor for Linux:

wxHexEditor is a hex editor specially for big files.

  • It uses 64 bit file descriptors (supports files or devices up to 2^64 bytes , means some exabytes but tested only 1 PetaByte file (yet). ).
  • It does NOT copy whole file to your RAM. That make it FAST and can open files (which sizes are Multi Giga < Tera < Peta < Exabytes)
  • Could open your devices on Linux, Windows or MacOSX.
  • Memory Usage : Currently ~10 MegaBytes while opened multiple > ~8GB files.
  • Could operate thru XOR encryption.
  • Written with C++/wxWidgets GUI libs and can be used with other OSes such as Mac OS, Windows as native application.
  • You can copy/edit your Disks, HDD Sectors with it.( Usefull for rescue files/partitions by hand. )
  • You can delete/insert bytes to file, more than once, without creating temp file.

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You can sort on Linux to find some more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_hex_editors

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You may try hexeditor.jar, a binary file editor. Since it's written in Java, it should be compatible with most operating systems.

javadev/hexeditor.jar

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