bbe
binary block editor

What is bbe?

bbe is a sed-like editor for binary files. bbe performs basic byte operations on blocks of input stream. bbe is command line tools developed in GNU/Linux environment. bbe is distributed under GNU General Public License 2 or later.

Main features

Non-interactive command-line tool.
Reads input stream in arbitrary blocks, not as lines as sed.
Input blocks can be defined as offset and length, just length, or using start and stop strings.
Basic commands: insert, delete, change, replace and convert data.
Commands can be given in command line or read from script-file.
Blocks can be written either to standard output or file.

News

2006-11-05: Version 0.2.2. Command x added
2006-10-29: Version 0.2.1. Minor bug fixes
2006-10-23: Version 0.2.0. Minor bug fixes
2006-03-16: Version 0.1.9. d-command enhanced
2005-11-15: Version 0.1.8. Commands <,>,u and f added
2005-11-08: Version 0.1.7. More sane results when byte ranges of i and d commands overlap
2005-11-06: bbe in Debian. bbe was accepted into Debian, bbe is currently in unstable and testing distributions.
2005-10-28: Version 0.1.6. Bug in s-command fixed, bbe.html installed to /usr/local/share/doc/bbe
2005-10-23: Version 0.1.5. Format string %B added to filename of w-command. Documentation corrected.
2005-10-16: Version 0.1.4. Bug fixes, better performance.
2005-10-09: Version 0.1.3. Bug fixes, command p B added.
2005-10-02: Version 0.1.2. Bug fixes, \n, \r etc. escape codes, binary commands (&,|,~ and ^)
2005-09-25: Version 0.1.1. Bug fixes, new commands N,F,B and p, -s switch.
2005-09-15: First version 0.1.0