MHV

How it works?

• The color legend

  • ⬛ Null byte

  • 🟦 ASCII Printable Characters

  • 🟩 Space Characters

  • 🟩 Control Characters

  • 🟥 ASCII Extended Codes

• Install

$ cargo install mhv

Usage

❯ mhv -h
A minimalist hex viewer

Usage: mhv [OPTIONS] <FILENAME>

Arguments:
  <FILENAME>  Target file

Options:
  -s, --skip <N>      Skip `N` bytes of the input. The `N` argument can also
                      include an unit (see `--length` for details). [default: 0]
  -l, --length <N>    Read `N` bytes from the input. None for full read. The `N`
                      argument can be a unit with a decimal prefix(kb, mb).
                      Examples: --length 3kb, -l3kb, --length 1mb...
                      N unis are kb(1000), K(1024), mb(1000 * 1000), M(1024 * 1024),
                      and a prefix 0x for hexadecimal, `0x0a`
  -n, --no-squeezing  Displays all input data. Otherwise any number of output
                      lines which would be identical to the last one are replaced
                      with a line comprised of a single asterisk
  -h, --help          Print help
  -V, --version       Print version

Stream Workflow

Usage examples

• Read 5 bytes from start

• Read 32 bytes from start

• Skip 16 bytes and read 40

• Read using units kb(1000), K(1024), mb(1000 * 1000) or M(1024 * 1024)

• Read from offset 0x50 plus 16 bytes

• Read UTF16 file