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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Converting a binary file to ascii and vice versa? Post 302859405 by baranisachin on Thursday 3rd of October 2013 04:35:38 AM
Old 10-03-2013
Hi Scoot,
THanks for the reply, As i told its a file extracted from a database table with '~' as a delimitter; The file might contain arbitrary No. of columns each time. Strings is not converting the entire file properly as expected. Is there any other command/script that will help me?
 

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gshhstograss

GSHHS2GRASS(1gmt)					       Generic Mapping Tools						 GSHHS2GRASS(1gmt)

NAME

       gshhs2grass - Extracting GSHHS and WDBII data in GRASS-compatible ASCII format

SYNOPSIS

       gshhs2grass -i gshhs_[f|h|i|l|c].b [ -xminx ] [-Xmaxx ] [ -yminy ] [ -Ymaxy ]

DESCRIPTION

       gshhs2grass reads the binary coastline (GSHHS) and and translates it into an ASCII format suitable for import into GRASS.  It automatically
       handles byte-swabbing between different architectures.

       gshhs_[f|h|i|l|c].b
	      One of the GSHHS binary data file as distributed with the GSHHS data supplement.	Any of the 5  standard	resolutions  (full,  high,
	      intermediate, low, crude) can be used.  The resulting files are called dig_[ascii|att|cats].gshhs_[f|h|i|l|c].

OPTIONS

       -x     Specify a minimum (west) longitude.

       -X     Specify a maximum (east) longitude.

       -y     Specify a minimum (south) latitude.

       -Y     Specify a maximum (north) latitude.

EXAMPLES

       To convert the full GSHHS data set , try

       gshhs2grass gshhs_f.b

BUGS

       Not updated to handle the WDBII line data (borders or rivers).

AUTHOR

       Original version by Simon Cox (simon@ned.dem.csiro.au) with some maintenance by Paul Wessel (pwessel@hawaii.edu).

SEE ALSO

       GMT(1), gshhs(1) gshhs_dp(1)

GMT 4.5.7							    15 Jul 2011 						 GSHHS2GRASS(1gmt)
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