The Ultimate Hex Editing Method

010Editor (paid license) HxD32.exe vim file.bin :%!xxd :%!xxd -r xxd file.bin > bin.txt nano bin.txt xxd -r bin.txt > file.bin xxd -g 1 file.bin \ | sed 's/74 cb/75 cb/' \ | xxd -r > file.bin echo -ne "\x4d\x5a" > file.bin

A progression of increasingly elaborate ways to edit binary files is shown alongside increasingly powerful glowing-brain images. It starts with paid GUI editors and ends with manually writing hexadecimal bytes using a shell command. The joke is that programmers present the most obscure and overcomplicated method as the ultimate level of expertise.

• @dev_meme / 4066 2021-12-24