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Convert binary file to text file
I'm struggling with a srt subtitles, which are a binary file for some reason:
file -i file.srt
file.srt: application/octet-stream; charset=binary
When opening them in kate (KDE text editor) they look ...
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Simple Binary Replacement
I tried using bbe as below
bbe -e 's/01110011/01111000/' test.txt
All I'm trying to accomplish in this example is to read the file as if it's a binary file, and replacing the letter s with x.
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Text file being identified as binary
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I've been using lynx for a couple of years to dump automatically (via cron), process (using awk, sed, and tr), then mail (bsd-mailx) the contents of a web page. It's been working pretty ...
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md5sum command binary and text mode
The GNU md5sum command has two modes: binary mode and text mode. I guess the difference is only on how newline characters are handled? Am I right?
On GNU/Linux, the two modes always produce same ...
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Get "Text Content" of Files
I was wondering if there is a tool to scrape text content of a file. Basically I would like to put in a pdf, word document, compressed file or anything else and get the text it contains out.
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