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Old 10-16-2001
Question Binary Files

Does any one know how to view a binary file as it is (in 1s and 0s) on unix environment?
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Old 10-16-2001
You can use...
od -x filename
...and it will display the binary file in Hex format.
You can easily convert this to binary (if you really want to).
 
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