Hi,
I wnt to convert binary to text in linux.. cn anybody help me.. thanks :)
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Hi,
I wnt to convert binary to text in linux.. cn anybody help me.. thanks :)
You will have to be more specific. Do you have a binary file which you want to search for ASCII strings? Do you have a text file containing binary data as 1's and 0's which you need to convert to ASCII text? Do you want to convert binary data to a text friendly representation such as base64 encoding?
Yeah i know this is an old thread but I've had success with this and also have a question. Now I could use some CLI tools w/bash script to achieve my ends here but I'm curious if there is already a linux tool for this. I can take a binary file and see the output in ascii text using hexdump, aka hd:
However stdout looks something like this:Code:hexdump -C binary-file
I don't want the hexadecimal data, I just want the ascii on the right. Any tools or proper tool use for this? thanks in advance.Code:000000a0 30 e3 d3 60 e1 00 aa aa 03 00 00 00 08 00 45 00 |0..`..........E.|
000000b0 00 8f bd 2a 40 00 6e 06 fb 0b 4d ff 44 4b c0 a8 |...*@.n...M.DK..|
000000c0 01 40 ba fd b8 e5 1f ca 95 17 49 4f b8 22 50 18 |.@........IO."P.|
000000d0 44 10 94 6a 00 00 9c ca f7 49 a2 f0 4f 91 59 54 |D..j.....I..O.YT|
000000e0 04 ed 05 08 6c d4 3d 3a 96 82 51 f3 8f 33 d6 7d |....l.=:..Q..3.}|
000000f0 ad 0a 7f a6 ae cf 24 34 ee ff 24 af 63 ae 5d dd |......$4..$.c.].|
00000100 6c 90 ab d2 82 4e 86 d2 b5 6f 8b fd 4b d1 7c 68 |l....N...o..K.|h|
00000110 0a 67 6e ee 73 6f 34 8c 44 8d 6f a3 87 96 04 35 |.gn.so4.D.o....5|
00000120 f6 ea e8 c8 82 cf 2c fd 4e 65 64 0f 3e 8c 44 54 |......,.Ned.>.DT|
00000130 c5 6e 91 17 01 4d 0e 75 58 4e f4 95 9d 84 18 f2 |.n...M.uXN......|
00000140 c3 36 d4 ff 4d 24 7a 0b 00 0a 00 00 00 0a 00 00 |.6..M$z.........|
00000150 00 d4 00 00 00 00 24 2b 28 04 e6 36 d4 ff 4d 40 |......$+(..6..M@|
00000160 7a 0b 00 4c 00 00 00 4c 00 00 00 08 41 34 00 98 |z..L...L....A4..|
00000170 2c be 0b ec 31 00 24 2b 28 04 e6 98 2c be 0b ec |,...1.$+(...,...|
00000180 31 80 59 39 2e 1b 00 aa aa 03 00 00 00 08 00 45 |1.Y9...........E|
PS, I apologize in advance if i'm "thread hijacking" but I figured it was along the topic and didn't want to start a new thread.
Have you taken a look at t1utils in the archives?
i'll check that out, thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by dFlyer
edit:
that would suit my needs except it only works for certain file types. I just want to convert the binary data to ascii in general. not specifically for an adobe file or otherwise.
The "hexdump" program allows you pretty broad control over your output format, but it may take some experimenting to get the format you want. Here are some examples:
If all you want to do is find the ASCII strings embedded in a binary file, the "strings" command is your friend.Code:$ cat ./sample_file.txt
This is line 1.
This is line 2.
This is line 3.
$ hexdump -e '"%08.8_ao " 32/1 "%_p" "\n" ' ./sample_file.txt
00000000 This is line 1..This is line 2..
00000040 This is line 3..
$ hexdump -e '"%08.8_ao " 8/1 "%3_c " "\n" ' ./sample_file.txt
00000000 T h i s i s
00000010 l i n e 1 . \n
00000020 T h i s i s
00000030 l i n e 2 . \n
00000040 T h i s i s
00000050 l i n e 3 . \n
Hi, even i too face the same problem of reading a .config file
i want to convert it into a readable formart. am not sure is that a binary file format.
can anyone help me out... :)