02-07-2007
Unreadable Unix File
Hi Everyone,
I have a question for you all. I am working at a company and we are trying to recover .dat files which were created on an older linux box and we have a folder of .dat files that are unreadable. When you try to open them in a text editor you get jibberish all shapes and sizes and when you try to open the files in a file viewer it shows them as a hexadecimal/binary file. These .dat files ultimately have or should have readable data in them stating what we need. If anyone has some solutions or would like to know further details I really would appreciate it. I also checked the permissions on the files and the user it belongs to on the unix box and we were unable to open them on the unix box or on the windows box.
Thanks
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Guys,
I have one query. Say I have one script named test.sh.
My Question: There is any method by which I can make this script (test.sh)
non-human readable( like Encrypt) format as well as it should be executable also(mean to say it (test.sh) should not change its behaviour).
Thanks... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: SanjayLinux
3 Replies
2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am trying to parse emails sent from a blackberry. I am using fetchmail to download email through IMAP from my exchange server and then forward to local Linux mail. (This part works fine.)
When viewing and saving messages sent as plain text from Outlook, everything works fine. However, when... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Squeakygoose
1 Replies
3. Red Hat
hi all,
i executed this command "pstree" on redhat ent 4 and i got this below with unreadable chars:
init─┬─acpid
â”─amqzxma0─┬─amqrrmfa
│ â”─amqzdmaa
│ â”─amqzfuma
│ â”─5*
│ â”─amqzmgr0─┬─amqpcsea
│ │ ... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: itik
2 Replies
4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
can someone explain what does this mean and why does this happen? i had this problem last week, and Unix admin said that he has to rebuild the file system. Now i am getting this error again.
aaaa% ls
. unreadable
:mad: (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: treneryy
7 Replies
5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file like this 07200900.SUP,in a windows directory I need to FTP this file to UNIX , the directory in unix is N:\orgs\Financial Aid\MIIS\0910\FTP
I am getting this error
miis_ftp.ELM_SUP.shl: =cd orgs/"Financial Aid"/"MIIS"/"0910"/"FTP" : not found
IN THE LOG FILE
Activities for Mon... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: rechever
3 Replies
6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I will appreciate any help with this...
I have a file in this directory that looks like: this
07210900.SUP, I am getting the following error:
Activities for Tue Jul 21 07:29:14 EDT 2009:
File 07210900.SUP does not exist or unreadable
End of activities
The idea is to capture the file in... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: rechever
1 Replies
7. Filesystems, Disks and Memory
I found a document: Bad block HOWTO for smartmontools
My hard drive is Maxtor:
root]# fdisk -lu /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders, total 160086528 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3f4e3f4d
... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: justinian
0 Replies
8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I developed a java application in Windows and transferred it to a HP-UX environment(using WinSCP) for deployment.
I used "chmod 777 ..." for granting rights to the files.
After I did this, whenever I go into that directory(or it's immediate parent directory) and hit "ls"......it... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: agnivaccent
4 Replies
9. UNIX and Linux Applications
Can anyone explain why a editable pdf becomes unreadable after edited with okular? (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: cokedude
5 Replies
10. AIX
Hello Folks,
I have got this message:
When I contacted support, they said this is logical filesystem error and it has to do with the filesystem. How can I find out ? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: filosophizer
1 Replies
LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
unknown
UNKNOWN(1) General Commands Manual UNKNOWN(1)
NAME
unknown - identify possible genotypes for unknowns
SYNOPSIS
A program to rapidly identify which genotypes are possible for individuals typed as unknowns in the input pedigree.
unknown [ -cl ]
DESCRIPTION
unknown infers possible genotypes and mating combinations for parents with unknown genotypes for ilink(1), mlink(1) and linkmap(1).
OPTIONS
-c Use conditional allele frequencies.
-l Choose a good set of loop breakers automatically.
RETURN VALUE
0 Successful completion
ERRORS
10 File not found
255 Failure
EXAMPLES
Normally, unknown(1) is run immediately prior to its sister programs, ilink(1), mlink(1) and linkmap(1), like this:
unknown
mlink
FILES
unknown(1) reads the two files pedfile.dat and datafile.dat as its own input and produces various temporary files that are used as input to
the next program. These temporary files are ipedfile.dat, upedfile.dat, speedfile.dat and newspeedfile.dat.
NOTES
unknown(1) is part of the FASTLINK package, which is a re-implementation of the LINKAGE suite of computer tools that help investigate
genetic linkage as first proposed G.M. Lathrop, J.M. Lalouel, C. Julier, and J. Ott.
AUTHORS
Dylan Cooper, Alejandro Schaffer, and Tony Schurtz based on work originally by Jurg Ott, Ph.D, et. al.
This manual page was written by Elizabeth Barham <lizzy@soggytrousers.net> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
WORD-WIDE-WEB
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/CBBResearch/Schaffer/fastlink.html
SEE ALSO
ilink(1), linkmap(1), lodscore(1), mlink(1).
April 15, 2003 UNKNOWN(1)