[nycphp-talk] High-powered file viewer
Jon Baer
jonbaer at jonbaer.com
Tue Apr 3 15:01:29 EDT 2007
Not sure if you are looking to just parse/analyze but Ive used these
scripting options:
xxd -ps file.bin (pipe to grep | pipe to tr | piped to xxd -r)
cut -b 10-13 | xxd -ps
There is also a great rubygem called bindata which is dead simple to
use, just build your own struct.
http://bindata.rubyforge.org
(Or were you just talking about a GUI app?)
- Jon
On Apr 3, 2007, at 6:07 AM, Kenneth Downs wrote:
> Wondering if anybody can give personal experience with a linux-
> based flexible file viewer.
>
> The file in question is a mixed binary/ascii (yes ascii, not utf-8)
> format from a DOS program. It appears that financial data and
> dates are encoded as binaries, probably to save space, and that
> would mean there are also pointers in there. I've got to identify
> about 4 important fields and pull them out.
>
> I've done jobs like this plenty of times, but not since my fox
> days, and fox was pretty good with stuff like this. I've never had
> to do it with *nix tools.
>
> I'm aware that there are plenty of hex viewers out there, what i'm
> hoping for is that somebody has done something similar or close and
> can recommend a good viewer from personal experience.
>
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