What does unreadable mean? There is no guarantee that ascii files are intelligible. If I use an editor to put these lines:
in a file, all that "cat" can do is display what I typed. Suppose that I call that file "UnderstandingImmanuelKant" and send it to you. You still will only see those three lines of garbage. That is simply all that is in the file.
And maybe you are wrong in thinking that the file is an ascii file? What makes you think that it is?
Anyway the "strings" command (not string) can pull ascii strings out of a binary file.
There is also a "od" command that can show the value of the bytes. And a "more" command that might be useful.
I'm writing a script that takes a filename as an argument, which determines the "file type" of the file. I want to know if there is any command I can use to determine if a file is ASCII type, thanks all for giving a help. (11 Replies)
I want to verify the file is Binary or ascii file and accordingly I want to switch the program with ret code
ie 0 or success and 1 for failure
Can any one help me is this a correct syntex...i am getting error
#!/bin/ksh
$file filename
if
echo "ascii fie Found"
else
echo " binary... (6 Replies)
Hello All,
I need to read the data inside one file who's format is ascii text. I got the file format when I use file command on the file.
file <filename>
filename ascii text
please help me on this.
Thanks (8 Replies)
Hi gurus,
I have a file in unix with ascii values. I need to convert all the ascii values in the file to ascii characters. File contains nearly 20000 records with ascii values. (10 Replies)
I have a file in below format(ISO ) and to be convert to readable (.txt/Ascii) format .send me the commands/code please
sample as follows
2043010101167157001190002010011120000000002144300000000000000000000 01022_ - %rE@
U...ug 47 56 d %rE@ 01022_ - $5
fy ... (1 Reply)
Hello all,
To give you all a little bit of background. We recently migrated from HP-UX to Redhat Linux and one of the command I used to run on HP-UX to convert an EBCDIC file to ASCII file isn't working on Linux. The code is as follow:
cat workout2.dat | dd cbs=250 conv=block conv=ascii... (3 Replies)
Hi Folks,
While transferring file from FTP software like Filezilla the files gets corrupted.
Is there any way I can check if the recently transferred file is in ASCII and not corrupted. I have tried using file -i filename command which does tell if the file character set is ASCII or binary... (6 Replies)
Hi All,
I have an ascii file in which few columns are having hex values which i need to convert into ascii. Kindly suggest me what command can be used in unix shell scripting?
Thanks in Advance (2 Replies)
Hi Team,
I am having 100 EBCDIC files (i.e. DAT extension) and need to convert them into ASCII File by unix shell script.
I tried with DD Command but its not providing output as expected.
Sample Text:
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@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Expected Output:... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: JSM
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
ascii-xfr
ASCII-XFR(1) Linux Users Manual ASCII-XFR(1)NAME
ascii-xfr - upload/download files using the ASCII protocol
SYNOPSIS
ascii-xfr -s|-r [-ednv] [-l linedelay] [-c characterdelay] filename
DESCRIPTION
Ascii-xfr Transfers files in ASCII mode. This means no flow control, no checksumming and no file-name negotiation. It should only be used
if the remote system doesn't understand anything else.
The ASCII protocol transfers files line-by-line. The EOL (End-Of-Line) character is transmitted as CRLF. When receiving, the CR character
is stripped from the incoming file. The Control-Z (ASCII 26) character signals End-Of-File, if option -e is specified (unless you change
it to Control-D (ASCII 4) with -d).
Ascii-xfr reads from stdin when receiving, and sends data on stdout when sending. Some form of input or output redirection to the modem
device is thus needed when downloading or uploading, respectively.
OPTIONS -s Send a file.
-r Receive a file. One of -s or -r must be present.
-e Send the End-Of-File character (Control-Z, ASCII 26 by default) when uploading has finished.
-d Use the Control-D (ASCII 4) as End-Of-File character.
-n Do not translate CR to CRLF and vice versa.
-v Verbose: show transfer statistics on the stderr output.
-l milliseconds
When transmitting, pause for this delay after each line.
-c milliseconds
When transmitting, pause for this delay after each character.
file Name of the file to send or receive. When receiving, any existing file by this name will be truncated.
USAGE WITH MINICOM
If you want to call this program from minicom(1), start minicom and go to the Options menu. Select File transfer protocols. Add the fol-
lowing lines, for example as protocols I and J.
I Ascii /usr/bin/ascii-xfr -sv Y U N Y
J Ascii /usr/bin/ascii-xfr -rv Y D N Y
AUTHOR
Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl
Jukka Lahtinen, walker@netsonic.fi
SEE ALSO minicom(1)
$Date: 2006-10-28 14:35:59 $ ASCII-XFR(1)