04-19-2013
When I read your thread title, the first thing jumping to my mind was dd. This failing, did you consider recode or iconv, both of which should be available on the linux platform?
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hexeditor
HEXEDITOR(1) General Commands Manual HEXEDITOR(1)
NAME
hexeditor - Full screen curses Hex editor
SYNOPSIS
hexeditor [ -8abdfgqrv ] [ filename ]
DESCRIPTION
Hexeditor is an editor to edit binary (or any) files or disks. The Display consists of the current offset from 0 (the first byte), the
next sixteen bytes (aligned by bytes or 32-bit words), and its ASCII or EBCDIC text representation.
OPTIONS
-h, --help
Display help
-8, --highbit
Display 8-bit text
-a, --alltext
Display all text regardless that you know better
-b, --buffer
Buffer the entire file into memory. Faster, and enables insert and delete.
-d, --disk
File editing is a disk. OpenBSD and Linux only.
-f, --force
Force editing of a disk. Need this option to enable writing to disks.
-q, --quiet
Quiet Mode; Turn off all beeping.
-r, --readonly
Do not allow modifying the file
-v, --version
Display version number
Commands and keys
^A Insert byte
Insert Insert byte
^D Delete byte
Delete Delete byte
^E viEw as text dump
^F Page down
^V Page down
Page Down
Page down
^B Page Up
^Y Page Up
Alt-V Page Up
Page Up
Page Up
Tab Switch from hex to text representation
^I Switch from hex to text representation
^T goTo offset
^G Get help
^L Redraw screen
^C Quit without saving
^O Save
^X Save and Quit
^W Search (text/hex)
^N find Next
^U Undo
^R ASCII <=> EBCDIC
^P Switch Spacings
^+ Binary Calculator
Author
Adam Rogoyski <apoc@laker.net>
See Also
od (1)
BUGS
Editing disks is only supported in Linux and OpenBSD.
Please email Adam Rogoyski <apoc@laker.net> with any bugs you might find. This man page is intentionally brief. Please Read the included
documentation in Texinfo format for additional information
HEXEDITOR(1)