# hexyl > A simple hex viewer for the terminal. Uses colored output to distinguish different categories of bytes. > 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 {{n}} {{path/to/file}}` - Print bytes 512 through 1024 of a file: `hexyl -r {{512}}:{{1024}} {{path/to/file}}` - Print 512 bytes starting at the 1024th byte: `hexyl -r {{1024}}:+{{512}} {{path/to/file}}`