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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Creating data delimited by ASCII code 1 Post 303036243 by jim mcnamara on Thursday 20th of June 2019 08:16:30 AM
Old 06-20-2019
Pure shell script does NOT work at all well with binary data. The main reason is that binary data will have the ASCII 0 character. For shell, this character marks the end of a string. I would try using the dd command instead. For a start on this.

1. What OS do you have
2. are the binary "fields" all exactly the same length, e.g., pick one: 4 bytes, 8 bytes, etc.
3. can you work with writing simple C code? or perl? This may be another option for you.
 

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csv2mipe

CSV2MIPE(1)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					       CSV2MIPE(1)

NAME

       csv2mipe.pl - Generates MIPE file based on 3 tab-delimited files
	 based on MIPE version v1.1
	 arguments: * tab-delimited file with PCR-level data
		    * tab-delimited file with SNP-level data
		    * tab-delimited file with assay-level data

	 Columns in file with PCR-level data:
	   pcr_id
	   pcr_modified (might be multiple, divided by semi-colon ";")
	   pcr_project (might be multiple, divided by semi-colon ";")
	   pcr_researcher (might be multiple, divided by semi-colon ";")
	   pcr_species
	   source_type
	   source_id
	   design_seq
	   primer1_oligo
	   primer1_seq
	   primer1_tm
	   primer2_oligo
	   primer2_seq
	   primer2_tm
	   design_remark (might be multiple, divided by semi-colon ";")
	   use_seq
	   use_revcomp
	   use_remark (might be multiple, divided by semi-colon ";")
	   pcr_remark (might be multiple, divided by semi-colon ";")

	 Columns in file with SNP-level data:
	   pcr_id
	   snp_id
	   snp_pos
	   snp_amb
	   snp_remark (might be multiple, divided by semi-colon ";")

	 Columns in file with assay-level data:
	   pcr_id
	   snp_id
	   assay_id
	   assay_type
	   assay_enzyme
	   assay_oligo
	   assay_specific
	   assay_tail
	   assay_strand
	   assay_remark (might be multiple, divided by semi-colon ";")

SYNOPSIS

       csv2mipe.pl <pcr_file.csv> <snp_file.csv> <assay_file.csv>

ADDITIONAL INFO

       See http://mipe.sourceforge.net

AUTHOR

       Jan Aerts (jan.aerts@bbsrc.ac.uk)

perl v5.14.2							    2005-07-20							       CSV2MIPE(1)
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