I suppose the real question is why you need it as a "binary file"? (not simple ASCII display text)
If you want to extract the content for some purpose, then any way to get at it that works is valid. If you want to update the file, then that's another question.
What do you actually want to achieve? If you can give us an idea of your thoughts then there may be an alternate way. It might help to say why you need a "binary file" in the first place.
Dear Sir;
i want to know how the binary data convert to text file or readablw format (ASCII).If possible pl. help me for the software and where it is available for download. i.e. (1 Reply)
All,
I want to convert multiple \0 005 characters to line feed 012 character
in a binary file to make to readable. Here is the sample od -c file
output:
0000000 254 355 \0 005 s r \0 * c o m . c i s c
Here is the sample od -b file output:
0000000 254 355 000... (0 Replies)
Hi Guy's can someone help me in converting the following
I have a flat text file which has several thousand lines which I need to convert to a csv it's got a consistent format but basically want every time it hit's txt to create a new line with the subsequent lines comma delimited for example
... (6 Replies)
Request if some one could provide me shell script that converts the below "input file" to "CSV format file" given
Name Domain Contact Phone Email Location
----------------------- ------------------------------------------------ ------- ----- ---------------------------------... (7 Replies)
INput file attached in thread : Column widths at 24,73,82,87,121 characters (sed 's/./,/24;s/./,/73;s/./,/81;s/./,/87;s/./,/121;s/ *, */,/g' fixedinputfile >output.csv
). The client wants instead of hard coding the column widths as they are not fixed .he has given the hint stating that ( ... (3 Replies)
I have a CSV file in the below format.
while generating CSV file from excel sheet , date in excel sheet(Format :Mon 8/28/2012) got converted into the below format with numbers 41148,41149 so on.
Could anyone please let me know how to the convert the numbers(41148,41149 so on.) to its actual... (2 Replies)
Hello *nix specialists,
Im working for a non profit organisation in Germany to transport DSL over WLAN to people in areas without no DSL. We are using Linksys WRT 54 router with DD-WRT firmware There are at the moment over 180 router running but we have to change some settings next time. So my... (7 Replies)
Hi All ,
I have a mainframe file which contains the data in EBCDIC format.I have downloaded this file from mainframe to windows in binary format(unreadable raw data).Now I want convert this file to ASCII format(readable format data) through Unix command.I have tried iconv but that is not working... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
ubuntu-distro-info
UBUNTU-DISTRO-INFO(1) General Commands Manual UBUNTU-DISTRO-INFO(1)NAME
ubuntu-distro-info - provides information about Ubuntu's distributions
SYNOPSIS
ubuntu-distro-info [OPTIONS]
OPTIONS --date=DATE
date for calculating the version (default: today)
-h, --help
display help message and exit
-a, --all
list all known versions
-d, --devel
latest development version
--lts latest long term support (LTS) version
-s, --stable
latest stable version
--supported
list of all supported stable versions
--unsupported
list of all unsupported stable versions
-c, --codename
print the codename (default)
-r, --release
print the release version
-f, --fullname
print the full name
SEE ALSO debian-distro-info(1), distro-info(1)AUTHOR
The script and this manual page was written by Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>.
distro-info January 2011 UBUNTU-DISTRO-INFO(1)