hexsearch

A CLI utility to search arbitrary bytes in files, by leveraging the power of regex crate in Rust.

Install

The following command will install hexsearch executable in ~/.cargo/bin directory:

cargo install --path .

Usage

hexsearch [OPTIONS] <bytes> <file>

The bytes to be searched can be in one of two formats:

• individual bytes in hexadecimal separated by space: 1f 8b 08
• hexadecimal value in one word prefixed with 0x: 0x1f8b08. This format will respect the --endian argument and it's big-endian by default

The search result will be printed in a style similar to hexdump(1) and you can set the line width by --width argument (default width: 16).

You can also print some extra lines before and after the search result by setting --context argument.

See hexsearch --help for full usage.

License

This project is licensed under MIT license.