sharkdp/hexyl
A command-line hex viewer observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
69/100
- Activity 80
- Release rhythm 38
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 235.5
- age_days: 2858
- days_rel: 200
- days_push: 125
- n_releases_24m: 3
Adoption not part of the score
10264 stars · 268 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
hexyl is a command-line hex viewer for the terminal written in Rust. It uses colored output to distinguish categories of bytes such as NULL bytes, printable ASCII, whitespace, other ASCII, and non-ASCII bytes.
Use cases
- view binary file contents in the terminal
- inspect hex dumps of files with color-coded byte categories
- examine unknown file formats byte by byte
- replace xxd or hexdump with a friendlier hex viewer
- debug binary data while developing
- quickly identify NULL bytes and non-ASCII content in a file
When to avoid
- you need to edit binary files, not just view them
- you need a GUI hex editor with advanced features like struct parsing
- you need scripted/parseable hex output rather than human-friendly colored display
Facets
cli-tool · maturity active
cli developer-tools terminal-ui developer-tools files windows bsd cli cross-platform rust hex-viewer binary-data hexdump colored-output terminal command-line linux macos
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl · fetched 2026-08-28 · 4f15f52f842d
- registry_crates: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/hexyl · fetched 2026-08-29 · 302bf87f6dcf
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| sharkdp/hexyl | main | 69 |
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