Bless Description
Bless is a binary (hexadecimal) editor, a program that allows you to edit files as sequences of bytes. It is written in C# and uses the Gtk# bindings for the GTK+ toolbox.
How To Use Bless Hex Editor Tutorial
Some hex editors also scan the entire file for text passages and list all matches in a result window. Another option is to use a structure editor or a data inspector. In the following, we will have a quick look at the data inspector of HxD 2.0, to interpret data in a meaningful way. We can use the bless hex editor tool (already installed on our VM) to directly modify binary files. We can also use the following commands to get the header from pi.bmp, the data from p2.bmp (from offset 55 to the end of the file), and then combine the header and data together into a new file. $ head -c 54 pl.bmp header $ tail -c +55 p2.bmp. Bless Hex Editor. Key Features: Raw disk editing. Multilevel undo/redo operations. Conversion table. Plugin support to extend the functionality. Bless is one of the most popular Hex editor available for Linux. Installing Bless: To install Bless graphical hex editor, run the following command: $ sudo apt-get install bless. Now press y and then press to continue. Bless hex editor should be installed. Now to start Bless hex editor, go to the Application Menu and search for Bless, and you should find the icon for Bless hex editor.
The application provides the following features:
- Efficient editing of large data files.
- Multiple undo and redo operations.
- Customizable data views.
- Fast display of data on the screen.
- Lots of tabs.
- Fast find and replace operations.
- Data conversion table.
- Advanced copy/paste capabilities.
- Highlight matched selection patterns in the file.
- Export to text and html.
- Extensibility with plugins.
Homepage: https://github.com/afrantzis/bless
Author: Alexandros Frantzis
License: GPLv2
Bless Help
You can launch the application in the following ways:
- Via the Application Menu: Select Programming/Development → Bless Hex Editor in the menu.
- From the command line: To run bless from the command line, type the following command and press Enter:
where FILE_NAMES is the name of one or more files that you want to open. If you do not specify files, the application will try to load the previous session. If that fails, the application will open an empty file for you.
Official instruction: Bless manual (hex editor).
Bless Usage Example
To run Bless and open the payload.hex file for viewing and editing, a new empty file called payload.hex will be created if it doesn't exist:
How to install Bless
Installation on Kali Linux
Installation on Debian, Linux Mint, Ubuntu
Installation on BlackArch
Bless Hex Editor Download
The program is pre-installed on BlackArch.