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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need to convert a binary file which in encoded using base32 encoding technique and convert that into readible ASCII so that i can load the same in DB.
is there any command to do the same.
sample from the binary file lools like :
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
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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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I have a binary file which is being exported from a Database, and i need to convert that to ASCII format. How can i achieve that? And this solution should work for any file which is given to us; means they will give different files from different tables.
Thanks in advance. (8 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
what is the diff between ascii and binary file.
my understand is that..
ascii file - has only line feed - \n in it
where as
binary file - has both line feed and carriage return in it- \r\n
is that correct.
also,what is the ksh command to identify whether it is a binary or ascii... (1 Reply)
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello all,
I am working with ftp servers in unix, and always I have to get and put files but I don't know exactly if I have to get or put them as an ascii or binary. Some files that I use are: .txt, .sav, .fmb, .pct, .sh, .ksh, .dat, .log.
Somebody can tell me what is the difference between... (2 Replies)
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6. Programming
Hi All,
Please suggest me how to read a binary file in text or ASCII format.
thanks
Nagendra (3 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Is there a way to convert the binary file to ascii . the binary file is pipe delimited.
from source the file(pipe delimited) is ftped to mainframe and from mainframe it is ftped to the unix box using binary format. Is there a way to change it back to ascii and view it?
Thanks! (3 Replies)
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8. 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)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
How to i determine via ftp commandline if files on ftp server is ascii or binary files. Like every other comon windows ftp program does it automatically.
regards
Thomas (5 Replies)
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10. 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)
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