[Feature] Highlight file signatures

sharkdp / hexyl

A command-line hex viewer

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[Feature] Highlight file signatures #128

Closed thecaralice closed 3 years ago

thecaralice commented 3 years ago

For example, in an ELF file 7F 45 4C 46 could be highlighted in some way (maybe background coloring?)

sharkdp commented 3 years ago

Thank you for the request.

That would require us to ship a whole database of file formats / magic numbers, right? I'm afraid this is out of scope for this project.

thecaralice commented 3 years ago

That would require us to ship a whole database of file formats / magic numbers, right?

Yeah, but there are existing solutions like libmagic

sharkdp commented 3 years ago

Thank you for the request, but I'd rather not add this functionality to hexyl. I'd rather keep it simple, for now. Happy to re-open if others voice support for this feature.