Discovered already months ago radare, same learning curve as with vim… for sure would not recommend to the 90% of the people working in It, but only for the 10%. If you hate vi, you will hate radare, if you love vi, you will even love more radare.

Did you ever think to print only text from a binary….

hexdump -v -e ‘80/1 “%_p” “\n”‘ /bin/ls.

or to see text in the physical memory (need admin rights, take care!)

hexdump -v -e ‘80/1 “%_p” “\n”‘ /dev/mem