# Install heksa with Homebrew

CLI hex dumper with colors. Version 1.14.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:heksa
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install heksa
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:heksa
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.14.0
- **Source summary:** CLI hex dumper with colors
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/raspi/heksa>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/raspi/heksa>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- heksa (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.14.0
## Project history and usage

heksa is a Go-based command-line hex dumper focused on colored terminal output and multiple simultaneous numeric views of binary data. Its history is thin but source-backed enough to identify it as a small developer utility rather than a larger platform.

### Project history

The repository metadata records heksa's public GitHub project from December 2019. The README credits Pekka Jarvinen from 2019 onward and describes the tool as a hex file dumper with ANSI colors, configurable output formats, offsets, seek and limit handling, and stdin support.

### Adoption history

heksa's adoption appears narrow: the input package facts list Homebrew packaging, and the upstream README includes packaging-status and release-download badges. That is enough to mark it as a packaged terminal utility, but not enough to claim broad ecosystem adoption.

### How it is used

The CLI reads files or stdin and can display hex, decimal, octal, bits, ASCII, block visualizations, multiple offset formats, human-readable offsets, relative offsets after seeking, byte limits, and prefixed numeric inputs such as hexadecimal, octal, binary, SI, and IEC units.

### Why package nerds care

For package nerds, heksa is interesting as a modern replacement-adjacent tool for `hexdump` and `xxd`: single binary, cross-platform Go build, colorized byte classes, and convenience flags aimed at binary inspection and reverse-engineering workflows.

### Timeline

- 2019: GitHub repository metadata records the heksa project.
- 2021: The README's embedded help text shows a 1.14.0 build date in May 2021.
- Package-manager era: The input package facts record Homebrew packaging.

### Related projects

- heksa is related to traditional binary inspection tools such as `hexdump`, `xxd`, and `od`, while adding terminal color and convenience formatting for modern CLI workflows.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/raspi/heksa>
- <https://github.com/raspi/heksa>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raspi/heksa/master/README.md>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/heksa.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/heksa.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph