11-05-2004
they are utilities to convert files to each respective format. if you dont have them installed on your system already, go to freshmeat.net and search for them. they are available for download there.
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Here is what I did . . . . I FTP'd several *.pdf files from a web site to a UNIX server, and did not set the transfer mode to BIN, now Adobe thinks that the documents are corrupted. Is there a way to convert the *.pdf files to Binary so that Adobe can open them again. I would just re-download... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: pc9456
2 Replies
2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Dear Experts
I need to read a binary file. I know for example in byte number 3801-3804 there is a 4 byte number embeded. Is there a way to extract this number from this file and then convert it to ascii via unix??
Your help would be highly appreciated.
Very Best Regards
Reza (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Reza Nazarian
5 Replies
3. Programming
i hav tried to convert binary 2D data into text using binreader and writing into text file using streamwriter.
i use ReadSingle() function to convert from binary to ascii, although it works good in 1D data but not in more dimensions.
the kind of values i get are
-1.265369923E+038
and like
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: geet
2 Replies
4. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi
i am receiving a file from one system , i have to verify the format of the file data i.e whether the data is in acii format or binary format,
please help
thanks in advance
satya (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Satyak
1 Replies
5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
Please let me know if it is possible to convert data from ASCII to Packed Decimal through Unix?
Basically we have ASCII file with numeric data we want to convert that files data to Packed decimal format to send it to main frame.
Please let me know if we can do it through unix script.... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: aloktiwary
1 Replies
6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Guys,
I have a file as follows:
a 1
b 786
c 90709
d 99
a 9875
b 989
c 887
d 111
I want:
a 1 9875
b 786 989 (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: npatwardhan
3 Replies
7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello everyone!
I have a huge dataset looking like this:
nameX nameX 0 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 ...............
nameY nameY 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 .....
nameB nameB 0 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 .....
(can be several thousands of codes)
and I need... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: kush
8 Replies
8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
I want to convert a 3-column data to 3-row data using shell script. Any suggestion in this regard is highly appreciated.
Thanks. (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: sktkpl
4 Replies
9. Solaris
I have a huge files in binary format
thanks to help me in finding a way to convert these files from Binary format to ASCII format. (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: PRINCESS_RORO
0 Replies
10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
With bash-script (ubunto server) I'm trying to read a binary file and, for each character, give back its ascii code (including extended ascii). For example:
HEX => ASCII => PRINT
f5 => 245 => õ
50 => 80 => P
To load the binary file into a variable I tried in this way: ... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: math4
2 Replies
LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
ptrepack
PTREPACK(1) General Commands Manual PTREPACK(1)
NAME
ptrepack - Copy any PyTables Leaf, Group or complete subtree into another file.
SYNOPSIS
ptrepack -h -v -o -R start,stop,step --non-recursive --dest-title=title --dont-copyuser-attrs --overwrite-nodes --complevel=(0-9) --com-
plib=lib --shuffle=(0|1) --fletcher32=(0|1) --keep-source-filters --upgrade-flavors --dont-regenerate-old-indexes sourcefile:sourcegroup
destfile:destgroup
DESCRIPTION
Copy any Leaf, Group or complete subtree from a PyTables file into another file.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
-h Prints a help text.
-v Show more information.
-o Overwite destination file.
-R RANGE
Select a RANGE of rows in the form start,stop,step during the copy of all the leaves.
--non-recursive
Do not do a recursive copy. Default is to do it.
--dest-title=title
Title for the new file (if not specified, the source is copied).
--dont-copy-userattrs
Do not copy the user attrs (default is to do it).
--overwrite-nodes
Overwrite destination nodes if they exist. Default is not to overwrite them.
--complevel=(0-9)
Set a compression level (0 for no compression, which is the default).
--complib=lib
Set the compression library to be used during the copy. lib can be set to "zlib", "lzo", "ucl" or "bzip2". Defaults to "zlib".
--shuffle=(0|1)
Activate or not the shuffling filter (default is active if complevel>0).
--fletcher32=(0|1)
Whether to activate or not the fletcher32 filter (not active by default).
--keep-source-filters
Use the original filters in source files. The default is not doing that if any of --complevel, --complib, --shuffle or --fletcher32
option is specified.
--upgrade-flavors
When repacking PyTables 1.x files, the flavor of leaves will be unset. With this, such a leaves will be serialized as objects with
the internal flavor ("numpy" for 2.x series).
--dont-regenerate-old-indexes
Disable regenerating old indexes. The default is to regenerate old indexes as they are found.
SEE ALSO
ptdump(1).
These utilities are documented fully by PyTables user's manual.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Francesc Altet <faltet@carabos.com>.
July 7, 2007 PTREPACK(1)