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Old 05-01-2013
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Originally Posted by hanson44
Yes, it is. Smilie cat -v is really great.
Personally, I wouldn't go that far. Its output is ambiguous, e.g. ^X can represent a control character or two literal characters. If you really, really want to know what you're looking at, vis is a better choice (or od, hexdump, etc).

Also, due to its ambiguous nature, cat -v is a one way conversion. vis has the advantage of being revertable, allowing one to pipe data with problematic bytes through utilities which expect a text file, work with the data, then revert back to the original unencoded form (modulo any edits).

Yes, I'm aware that I'm being nitpicky Smilie. I'm sure cat -v is good enough most of the time.

Regards,
Alister
 
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PEV(1)							      General Commands Manual							    PEV(1)

NAME
pev - show information about MS-Windows excutables files SYNOPSIS
pev [OPTION]... file DESCRIPTION
Make an analysis and show useful information of PE32/PE32+ file given. OPTIONS
-A, --all Equivalent to -cdhoprs. This is the default action if none is specified. -c, --coff Show the COFF file header. -d, --dos Show the DOS file header. -h, --help Show usage and exit. -o, --optional Show the Optional (a.k.a. PE) file header. -p, --product-version Show the Product Version (if added by programmer/compiler) of PE file. -r, --resources Show first level resource items information. -s, --sections Show information about executable sections. -v, --version Show version and exit. EXAMPLES
To get only the Product Version of putty.exe file: $ pev -p putty.exe To show DOS and COFF file headers of cards.dll: $ pev -dc cards.dll Display all possible information about svchost.exe file: $ pev svchost.exe AUTHOR
Written by Coding 40o group REPORTING BUGS
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Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Coding 40o. Licensed GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. PEV(1)