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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 :
... (18 Replies)
Discussion started by: krk
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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)
Discussion started by: STCET22
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3. 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
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4. 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)
Discussion started by: baranisachin
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5. 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)
Discussion started by: billpeter3010
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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)
Discussion started by: Nagendra
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
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)
Discussion started by: u263066
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8. 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)
Discussion started by: congo
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
Please help me out with a script which checks whether a given file say abc.txt is in ASCII format and data is tab-delimited. If the condition doesn't satisfy then it should generate error code "100" for file not in ASCII format and "105" if it is not in tab-delimited format.
If the... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: Mandab
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10. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Friends,
I've tried on solaris, but I could n't get ascii data
dd if=binaryinputfile bs=1 skip=3800 count=4 | od -t u4
output :
INDBU3:/usr/users/FTAMUSER/kk $
dd if=SMP20041006173649188151 bs=1 skip=3800 count=4 | od -t u4
4+0 records in
4+0 records out
0000000 0000000000
0000004... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: krishna
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10-08-2008
how to check the file data type(ascii or binary)