Hi bakunin...
Thanks a lot; if only I was that good...
Hi DGPickett...
This is the best I can do. Although there is a lot of superfluous code the important bits can be seen. This uses a default Macbook Pro system using bash...
Code :
#!/bin/bash --posix
ls -l /tmp/binary.file
text=""
newtext=""
count=0
# Active part...
while read
do
text=$(xxd -p /tmp/binary.file | tr -d '\n')
done < /tmp/binary.file
echo "*****************************************************"
echo -n "$text"
echo ""
echo "*****************************************************"
# Conversion part...
for count in $( seq 0 2 2047 )
do
if [ "${text:$count:2}" == "00" ]
then
newtext=$newtext'\\0'
else
newtext=$newtext'\x'${text:$count:2}
fi
done
# Binary string part...
text=$(echo -e -n "$newtext")
echo "*****************************************************"
echo -n "$text" > /tmp/newbinary.file
echo -n "$text"
echo ""
echo "*****************************************************"
hexdump -C /tmp/newbinary.file
The results on screen...
Code :
Last login: Sat Aug 24 21:32:46 on ttys000
AMIGA:barrywalker~> ./readtest.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 barrywalker wheel 1024 24 Aug 21:18 /tmp/binary.file
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