Comments on: Top Hex Editors for Linux

By: zezzagio

zezzagio — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 07:54:32 +0000

In reply to Josue.

I agree. Too much and too little. A lot of questionable graphical embellishments and useless exotic features and little of what is really needed.

HxD does everything I need; I edited without problems and quickly files of several gigabytes. I just wish I had a similar linux native program.

By: sem-geologist

sem-geologist — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 13:11:52 +0000

I tried most of those on the list.

To complete the list I think while not FOSS, it should be mentioned Hexinator.

However, if reverse engineering and inspecting the binary is the main scope, I would recommend nothing else but kaitai_struct web-ide (which can also be downloaded and run locally off-line in a browser).

Seriously, for RE kaitai struct puts all those editors far behind.

By: Artem

Artem — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 16:14:32 +0000

In reply to Josue.

Try this one: XVI: hex editor for Linux terminal.

By: Oktoman

Oktoman — Sun, 16 May 2021 07:00:38 +0000

wxHexEditor looks like an excellent alternative to Okteta (which is great, if relatively simple) - but the domain name and wiki etc are no longer active, and their SourceForge project page is a mess. Pity.

By: Josue

Josue — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 15:39:16 +0000

Surprisingly there is no decent hex editor for Linux. I tried all on this list and I’m disappointed.

Better to run HxD under Wine.