Need a good hex editor for Linux

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I need a good HEX editor for Linux  and by good I mean    Fast Search replace features Can display data not only in hex  but also binary  octal  etc  Can work with huge    1 gb  files without becoming slow and unresponsive  this requirement is important  Optionally  has some compare diff features   What can you suggest

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I am a VIMer  I can do some rare Hex edits with      xxd to switch into hex mode     xxd -r to exit from hex mode   But I strongly recommend ht apt-cache show ht  Package  ht Version  2 0 18-1 Installed-Size  1780 Maintainer  Alexander Reichle-Schmehl  lt tolimar debian org gt   Homepage  http   hte sourceforge net  Note  The package is called ht  whereas the executable is named hte after the package was installed   Supported file formats  common object file format  COFF XCOFF32  executable and linkable format  ELF  linear executables  LE  standard DO  executables  MZ  new executables  NE  portable executables  PE32 PE64  java class files  CLASS  Mach exe link format  MachO  X-Box executable  XBE  Flat  FLT  PowerPC executable format  PEF    Code  amp  Data Analyser  finds branch sources and destinations recursively finds procedure entries creates labels based on this information creates xref information allows to interactively analyse unexplored code allows to create rename delete labels allows to create edit comments supports x86  ia64  alpha  ppc and java code   Target systems  DJGPP GNU Linux FreeBSD OpenBSD Win32

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Personally  I use Emacs with hexl-mod    Emacs is able to work with really huge files  You can use search replace value easily  Finally  you can use  ediff  to do some diffs

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wxHexEditor is the only GUI disk editor for linux  to google  wxhexeditor site archive getdeb net  and download the  deb file to install

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Bless is a high quality  full featured hex editor  It is written in mono Gtk  and its primary platform is GNU Linux  However it should be able to run without problems on every platform that mono and Gtk  run  Bless currently provides the following features   Efficient editing of large data files and block devices  Multilevel undo - redo operations  Customizable data views  Fast data rendering on screen  Multiple tabs  Fast find and replace operations  A data conversion table  Advanced copy paste capabilities  Highlighting of selection pattern matches in the file  Plugin based architecture  Export of data to text and html  others with plugins   Bitwise operations on data  A comprehensive user manual   wxHexEditor is another Free Hex Editor  built because there is no good hex editor for Linux system  specially for big files   It uses 64 bit file descriptors  supports files or devices up to 2 64 bytes   means some exabytes but tested only 1 PetaByte file  yet      It does NOT copy whole file to your RAM  That make it FAST and can open files  which sizes are Multi Giga  lt  Tera  lt  Peta  lt  Exabytes  Could open your devices on Linux  Windows or MacOSX  Memory Usage   Currently  10 MegaBytes while opened multiple  gt   8GB files  Could operate thru XOR encryption  Written with C   wxWidgets GUI libs and can be used with other OSes such as Mac OS  Windows as native application  You can copy edit your Disks  HDD Sectors with it   Usefull for rescue files partitions by hand    You can delete insert bytes to file  more than once  without creating temp file   DHEX is a more than just another hex editor  It includes a diff mode  which can be used to easily and conveniently compare two binary files  Since it is based on ncurses and is themeable  it can run on any number of systems and scenarios  With its utilization of search logs  it is possible to track changes in different iterations of files easily  Wikipedia article You can sort on Linux to find some more here  http   en wikipedia org wiki Comparison of hex editors

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