NWHex

NWHex is a part of NoWare-Tools.

NWHex is a simple HEX viewer written in C.

Usage

$ nwhex [flags] file

Available Flags

• --help -h -- display help message.
• --version -v -- display version.
• --ascii -a -- display ASCII representation of data.
• --output -o [file] -- output read data to a file.

Examples

We have file with content:

Hello! I'm a test file!
How are you doing?

Output of this file will look like this:

$ nwhex test.txt
| Address    | 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F |
| ---------- | ----------------------------------------------- |
| 0x00000000 | 48 65 6C 6C 6F 21 20 49 27 6D 20 61 20 74 65 73 |
| 0x00000010 | 74 20 66 69 6C 65 21 0A 48 6F 77 20 61 72 65 20 |
| 0x00000020 | 79 6F 75 20 64 6F 69 6E 67 3F 0A                |

Or like this with --ascii flag:

$ nwhex --ascii test.txt
| Address    | 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F | ASCII            |
| ---------- | ----------------------------------------------- | ---------------- |
| 0x00000000 | 48 65 6C 6C 6F 21 20 49 27 6D 20 61 20 74 65 73 | Hello! I'm a tes |
| 0x00000010 | 74 20 66 69 6C 65 21 0A 48 6F 77 20 61 72 65 20 | t file!.How are  |
| 0x00000020 | 79 6F 75 20 64 6F 69 6E 67 3F 0A                | you doing?       |