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brew install heksa v1.14.0 Apache-2.0

CLI hex dumper with colors

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★ GitHub stars · updated 3y ago

Build dependencies

go

GitHub topics

binary command-line-tool dumper file-format go golang hacktoberfest hex hexadecimal reverse-engineering

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