I have a binary file with all content is text, i want convert this binary to a regular file because i want to parse it.
Thx.
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I have found the solution
cat file | tr -d '\0'
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tr -d '\0' < file
Help me out - what is a
?
A script?
Shot into the blue - the extenstion is probably ".run".
When its already text, why need to change it?
Doesnt do dos2unix not something simliar like that tr command?
Could be e.g. a UTF-16 file; then iconv might be preferrable to tr ...
I'm french, it"s possible that's not clear.
In fact, i have a file ArchivePlay.log from a windows PC, inside the file, there are whole text.
When i do:
file --mime ArchivePlay.log
it says: binary file
after:
od -bc ArchivePlay.log
I see a lot of
\0
If i:
tr -d '\0' ArchivePlay.log
The binary file become a plain text file, i'm happy
I'm wonder, how do the same thing with python, i try to convert the binary file in ascii file but without success
Out of sheer personal curiosity - would you post the (partial) output of od -ctx1 ArchivePlay.log ?
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0a 00
0004462
This looks to me like a UTF16 encoded file, except for the missing lead-in FF FE. While just removing the 00 chars may yield a valid file, especially when dealing with code points below 255, it may leave the file uninterpretable if high code points are in there. Use iconv to be on the safe side.