# hexyl > A simple hex viewer for the terminal. Uses colored output to distinguish different categories of bytes. > See also: `od`, `xxd`, `hexdump`. > More information: . - Print the hexadecimal representation of a file: `hexyl {{path/to/file}}` - Print the hexadecimal representation of the first n bytes of a file: `hexyl {{[-n|--length]}} {{n}} {{path/to/file}}`