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Re:Spotify excessively writing to drive by tomovo on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @03:55PM (#12914540)
Hex Fiend is another hex editor for the Mac. Native and fast. http://ridiculousfish.com/hexfiend/
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Re:Spotify excessively writing to drive by wamatt on Thursday November 10, 2016 @03:28AM (#12918675)
Or do it with a one liner

perl -pi -e 's/VACUUM/xxxxxx/g' /Applications/Spotify.app/Contents/MacOS/Spotify

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Re:Spotify excessively writing to drive by arcticbull on Thursday November 10, 2016 @01:31AM (#12918190)
I've always liked 0xED (http://www.suavetech.com/0xed/0xed.html)
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Re:Spotify excessively writing to drive by barbs on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @05:42PM (#12915517)
If you're looking for vi, but for binary, bvi does the job.

http://bvi.sourceforge.net/

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Re:Spotify excessively writing to drive by kovrik on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @08:39PM (#12916912)
Or use hexl-mode in Emacs
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Re:Spotify excessively writing to drive by JadeNB on Thursday November 10, 2016 @11:47AM (#12921953)
I'm pretty sure vi itself, or at least vim, is fine with binary files. You can run it as `vim -b` or `:set binary`.
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