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Commands tagged binary

Terminal - Commands tagged binary - 5 results

perl -le 'chomp($w=`which $ARGV[0]`);$_=`file $w`;while(/link\b/){chomp($_=(split/`/,$_)[1]);chop$_;$w.=" -> $_";$_=`file $_`;}print "\n$w";' COMMAND_NAME

2010-07-30 19:26:35

User: dbbolton

Functions: perl

Tags: which perl binary file PATH command

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Show full path followed by a command

This will show you any links that a command follows (unlike 'file -L'), as well as the ultimate binary or script.

Put the name of the command at the very end; this will be passed to perl as the first argument.

For obvious reasons, this doesn't work with aliases or functions.

function decToBin { echo "ibase=10; obase=2; $1" | bc; }

2009-11-24 22:57:58

User: woxidu

Functions: echo

Tags: bash binary ksh zsh decimal array

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Convert decimal numbers to binary

Convert some decimal numbers to binary numbers. You could also build a general base-converter:

function convBase { echo "ibase=$1; obase=$2; $3" | bc; }

then you could write

function decToBun { convBase 10 2 $1; }

watch -n 1 'echo "obase=2;`date +%s`" | bc'

2009-11-04 02:04:00

User: matthewbauer

Functions: watch

Tags: binary clock binary clock

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Binary Clock

Create a binary clock.

echo {0..1}{0..1}{0..1}{0..1}

2009-06-23 17:30:20

User: dennisw

Functions: echo

Tags: bash binary ksh zsh decimal array

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Create a list of binary numbers

If you should happen to find yourself needing some binary numbers, this is a quickie way of doing it. If you need more digits, just add more "{0..1}" sequences for each digit you need. You can assign them to an array, too, and access them by their decimal equivalent for a quickie binary to decimal conversion (for larger values it's probably better to use another method). Note: this works in bash, ksh and zsh. For zsh, though, you'll need to issue a setopt KSH_ARRAYS to make the array zero-based.

binary=({0..1}{0..1}{0..1}{0..1})

echo ${binary[9]}

echo -n $HEXBYTES | xxd -r -p | dd of=$FILE seek=$((0x$OFFSET)) bs=1 conv=notrunc

2009-03-11 17:02:24

User: zombiedeity

Functions: dd echo

Tags: bash dd binary hex edit xxd

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Binary injection

Replace (as opposed to insert) hex opcodes, data, breakpoints, etc. without opening a hex editor.

HEXBYTES contains the hex you want to inject in ascii form (e.g. 31c0)

OFFSET is the hex offset (e.g. 49cf) into the binary FILE

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