Questions tagged [binary-files]
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Vim: "not usable on this computer" error when trying to recover a swap file
I'd like to take a moment to touch on this error message, which can appear when you are listing swap files with vim -r.
[not usable on this computer]
Wherein if you attempt to recover the swap file, ...
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Trouble mounting SquashFS filesystem from TP-Link Deco M5 router firmware
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I am new to reverse engineering and trying to retrieve the file system of a TP-Link Deco M5 router from its firmware. I have successfully extracted the SquashFS filesystem from the firmware ...
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What is a container?
There is a lot of jargon around the word container. From AVI or M4A being a container to PE being a container format as noted in this comment.
It is important to understand that PE is just a ...
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How can I debug Binary batch file?
I have a .bat file in binary format.
But I don't know its functioning.
How can I view the content in detail or debug the binary .bat file, or convert it to exe file?
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File Contents Replaced with 0xFF (and a few 0x7F)
I have a corrupted word document whose data I am trying to recover. It comes from a thumb drive suspected of having virus activity; this is not the only file that has been affected. Opened it up with ...
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Why does my "grep" stop filtering a non-ASCII file it thinks is "binary"?
I'm working with a Windows-10 computer, using a WSL.
I'm investigating a logfile, produced by NLog in a C# application. I'm expecting log entries to appear everywhere throughout the file, but I see ...
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How can I add dummy bytes to a file? [duplicate]
I am on Windows 11 and I basically care about making the file (a .bin file) seem larger than it is without augmenting the file's function.
I have a 524,288 byte-sized file and I want to make it 4,194,...
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"There are some data after the end of the payload data" on 7zip while extracting a bin file from Gmod workshop
Before we start, this is a near-identical issue from 6 years ago, where the answer offered seem less relevant today due to updates to 7Zip.
While using 7zip to extract a bin file downloaded via ...
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Bash: truncate or crop part of binary file or stdin on CLI?
If I have a binary file, or some command with a raw binary output, and I'm looking for a shell (bash) command to crop a specific part of data i.e. with given start and length or end offset in bytes.
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Grepping byte offset values for data blocks of specific type in a binary file, but it's skipping blocks containing any byte larger than 127 [or 0x7F]
I have a binary file containing blocks of data. The first four bytes of each block contains a fixed byte string, five bytes after that contains the block's "type" byte. I want to find out ...
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On which systems should I prefer “musl” or “gnu” binaries?
Several rust utilities include binaries for linux with musl and gnu suffixes, leaving me to wonder which one should I use, and why?
Examples:
https://github.com/chmln/sd/releases provides musl and ...
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How can i convert a .bin file to a .json file [closed]
There is a ".bin" file on my pc that i want to convert. I tried to do it with a ISO reader but it wont work. The only thing i know about this file, it stores some json data that i want to ...
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Put binary numbers per row one by one
My aim is convert decimal number to binary numbers and putting binary numbers one by one per column in EXCEL. I did convert decimal to binary using BASE command and do not know how to put it one by ...
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What is the concrete difference between a binary file and any other kind of text file? [duplicate]
Question based out of curiosity. Why if I copy the code from a binary compiled from c code, and paste it into a new file that I make executable, this new file doesn't act as a binary and execute the ...
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Super user binary source for Debian distro
I'm trying to craft a new root handle in a Debian distro and need to know where the source code for the su binary is located in order to move forward. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
