Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2020 19:54:37 -0400 From: hexpeek@hexpeek.com To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: miguel@gocobachi.dev Subject: Re: hex editor for huge files Message-ID: <5789f9ec75853194e5446a7b01d54987@hexpeek.com> In-Reply-To: <0477c894-cf60-4708-422c-6ee6e7baba85@gocobachi.dev> References: <a79dda4646e48156ddccac9f53e6174b@hexpeek.com> <0477c894-cf60-4708-422c-6ee6e7baba85@gocobachi.dev>
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Thank you. I will look into formally adding it to the ports tree based on community interest. On 2020-07-07 14:36, Miguel Gocobachi wrote: > Hi, > > First of all. Thanks for sharing. If you want to add this program to > the FreeBSD ports, I made the diff for you, so you can be the > maintainer. > > https://bsd.to/dEwd > > just go ahead and make a new bug at https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ > > > enjoy! > > > On 7/7/20 9:38 AM, hexpeek@hexpeek.com wrote: >> hexpeek: a hex editor for huge files >> >> Occasionally I need to work with huge binary files. Over the years >> I've >> tried many different tools and never found one that was exactly what I >> wanted. In my experience most hex editors either (1) do not work well >> with 4GB+ files or (2) require the user to learn a curses interface >> and >> are not scriptable. >> >> So I ended up creating a hex editor with some nice features: >> 1. prompt interface with command history (with libedit) >> 2. scriptable interface with a flexible command language >> 3. no glitches on huge files -- no reading until user requests >> 4. fully functional insert and delete >> 5. multi-level backup and restore >> 6. ability to dump generic file descriptors >> 7. work in hexadecimal and with 64 bit file offsets by default >> 8. BSD 3-clause license >> 9. and more... >> >> If interested, please check out the project at https://www.hexpeek.com >> or send e-mail to hexpeek@hexpeek.com. >> >> hexpeek is known to work on Debian, CentOS, FreeBSD, and Cygwin and is >> expected to work on any recent POSIX-like system. I look forward to >> improving hexpeek based on community feedback. Please let me know what >> features you are looking for in a hex/metadata editor. >> >> About the author: visit https://www.resiliware.com for more about me. >> >> Thanks for reading!
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