#EDIT BIN FILE TERMINAL INSTALL#
Hexcurse is also available on FreeBSD to install it use cmd: hexcurse another ncurses library based hex editor – Petar Penchev has his own page on Īs a vim user I really liked the idea, the only thing I didn’t liked is there is no easy way to just substitute a string within the binary with another string.ĥ. It was interesting to find out hexer was written by a Bulgarian fellow Petar Penchev ? Hexer does follow the same standard commands like VIM, e.g.
Ht has the look & feel like midnight commander and I found it easier to use than chexedit and hexeditorĪs I was looking through the available packages ready to install, I’ve tried hexer You see how hte looks like in below screenshot: On FreeBSD you need to run it with ht command: Hte is started on Debian Linux (and presumably other Linux distros) with: On FreeBSD the port name is identical, so to install it I execed: The program is called hte (sounds to me a bit like the Indian word for Elephant “Hatti” :)) Just after trying out chexedit, I’ve found about the existence of one even more sophisticated hexeditor console program available across both FreeBSD and Linux. Hence to install it on Deb run:ĭebian:~# apt-get –yes install ncurses-hexeditįurther on the binary to run chexedit on binary contained within ncurses-hexedit is:ģ.
I’m not a low level programmer, so I don’t know the binary values of each keyboard character and hence my competence came to the point where I can substitute the text string I wanted with some unreadable characters by simply filling all my text string with AA AA AA AA values…Ĭhexedit on Debian is packaged under a deb ncurses-hexedit. I’ve installed chexedit the usual way from ports:Ĭhexedit is using the ncurses text console library, so the interface is very similar to midnight commander (mc) as you see from below’s screenshot:Įditting the binary compiled in string was an easy task with chexedit as most of the commands are clearly visible, anyways changing a certain text string contained within the binary file with some other is not easy with chexedit as you need to know the corresponding binary binary value representing each text string character. On Debian the hexedit, install package is named the same so installation is with apt: hexedit is definitely not a choice of people who are not “initiated” with hex editting.Īnyways if you want to give it a try you can install it on FreeBSD with: My previou experience in using hexedit is not too pinky, I found it difficult to use on Redhat and Debian Linux back in the day. I’ve used hexedit already on Linux so I’ve used it some long time ago. hexedit on Linux and BSD – basic hex editor Here is a list of the hex editors I will in short review in this article:ġ.
#EDIT BIN FILE TERMINAL CRACKED#
I even remember some DOS programs and games was possible to be cracked with a text editor … Well it was times, now back to current situation as a Free Software user for the last 12 years it was interesting to see what is the DOS hexeditor like alternatives for FreeBSD and Linux and hence in this article I will present my findings:Ī quick search in FreeBSD ports tree and Debian installable packages list, I’ve found a number of programs allowing one to edit in console and GUI binary files.
It was not rare case, where in this good old days, one could simply use the hex editor to “hack” the game and add extra player lives or modify some vital game parameter like put himself first in the top scores list.
#EDIT BIN FILE TERMINAL FOR FREE#
I know I can dig in the source of the proggie with grep and directly substitute my “unwatned text” there but I wanted to experiment, and see what kind of hex binary text editors are for Free OSes.Īll those who lived the DOS OS computer era should certainly remember the DOS hex editors was very enjoyable. I’ve recently wanted to edit one binary file because there was compiled in the binary a text string with a word I didn’t liked and therefore I wanted to delete.