Questions tagged [binary]
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How to print out all printable ASCII strings contained in binary data?
How can I print out all printable ASCII strings
(e.g., longer than four chars) contained in a binary file?
I used strings -a -w file.bin >>output.
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How to view the existing files of a drive binary copy?
Greetings
I've been recently studying the concepts of compression and copying in Linux.
When I've been introduced to the dd command, I have found it quite useful, so as an exercise, I bit-by-bit ...
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In Nix, how to make one derivation depend on another next to it?
I'm currently trying to package some closed-source software into Nix derivations. The app is distributed as a large pile of .deb files, and most of them contain libraries that the other parts of the ...
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Detecting used API calls for an application
I need to run a proprietary C++ application under Linux and I need to understand if it contains any functions outside advertised features.
Is there a way to list all the API calls that the application ...
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Search a binary file for a list of 500 000 binary patterns
I have a list of binary "strings" in a file delimited by newlines. I'd like to use that to search another binary file to check which of these patterns the binary files contains and at which ...
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Circular dependency issues
Do some .deb binary files need each other to be installed and removed?
If so, how do you get around this?
What I observed was that I wanted to install Kodi on an offline PC, but I got stuck with ...
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Directly Replacing Text in Binary File [duplicate]
I have a compiled executable (binary) file - mybin - which grep indicates contains a positive match with a given text string - Cats.
grep "Cats" mybin
Binary file mybin matches
If I use the ...
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Running Linux commands execute hidden command to regenerate Backdoor
My CentOS server compromised, the backdoor uploaded in /var/www/html/, I have deleted the backdoor and browsed the backdoor - to be sure it's deleted - it's surly deleted, but when I run any command ...
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Are FreeBSD binaries compatible with macOS?
Since FreeBSD and macOS (OS X) are very similar to each other, can programs written for FreeBSD run on macOS? And if a program can't, then would it be possible to make it work?
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Shift the address in the hex file with Offset
I want to update the hexfile start address with offset. For example, i have a hex file name abc.hex and start with address 0x0000 to 0xFFFF. But I want to shift the context in the hexfile to the ...
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How to replace stock java with downloaded binary?
In Debian Stable the latest openjdk version available is 17.
$ which -a java
/usr/bin/java
/bin/java
$ java --version
openjdk 17.0.8 2023-07-18
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 17.0.8+7-Debian-...
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Which portion of boot.log files are binary?
My system keeps seemingly randomly failing to boot after a kernel update. So I am reading logs to try to determine the cause of the issue. Here is one of the boot logs:
$ sudo cat /var/log/boot.log.1
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Cannot exceute binary: required file not found
I see that there are other questions like this out there, but the answers there did not work for me.
I am using I downloaded the Julia 1.9.2 (Linux, x86-64, glibc) prebuilt binary and tried to execute ...
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Creating file or folder showing drwxr-x--- 2 root bin
I am not sure why i get this drwxr-x--- 2 root bin every time I create a new file or folder on an NFS share. Earlier I used to get drwxrwxrwx 2 root root.
id root
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)...
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Convert executable binary to dyamic library
Functionally, a binary (as in ELF binary which can be executed from the shell) is somewhat similar to a library in that both are files containing machine code for a particular target ABI in binary ...
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