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| From | Noob <root@127.0.0.1> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? |
| Date | 2017-06-08 08:40 +0200 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <oharb5$2ch$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <oh9h55$a0q$2@dont-email.me> |
On 07/06/2017 20:40, DFS wrote: > How to determine if file is binary or text?> binary, such as .xls or .exe or Linux ELF executable> text, such as an ascii .txt file It involves a whole lotta guessin' http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/libmagic.3.html http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/file.1.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_%28command%29#Specification And now for a trick question: English Shellcode http://web.cs.jhu.edu/~sam/ccs243-mason.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellcode This is shellcode (i.e. executable code) using only ASCII characters. Is it "binary" or "text" ? Regards.
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How to determine if file is binary or text? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-06-07 14:40 -0400
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-06-07 20:46 +0200
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-06-07 19:58 +0100
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-06-07 19:05 +0000
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-06-07 12:10 -0700
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-06-07 16:25 -0400
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2017-06-07 21:44 +0000
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-06-07 18:14 -0400
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-06-08 00:23 +0200
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-06-08 00:11 -0500
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-06-08 15:14 +0200
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-06-08 11:06 -0500
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2017-06-17 18:28 +0000
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-06-07 23:30 +0100
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-06-07 20:26 -0400
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-06-08 01:30 +0100
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-06-07 23:50 -0400
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? mark.bluemel@gmail.com - 2017-06-08 02:13 -0700
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? mark.bluemel@gmail.com - 2017-06-08 04:05 -0700
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-06-08 09:21 -0400
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2017-06-08 14:19 +0000
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-06-08 12:07 -0400
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-06-08 16:14 +0000
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-06-08 12:37 -0400
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-06-08 16:54 +0000
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-06-08 13:14 -0400
An old version of what??? (Was: How to determine if file is binary or text?) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2017-06-09 17:13 +0000
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-06-08 11:15 +0100
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-06-08 12:49 +0000
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2017-06-08 14:01 +0000
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? Michael Forsythe <forsythe@example.com> - 2017-06-08 15:33 +0000
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-06-08 18:43 -0400
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? jak <please@nospam.tnx> - 2017-06-09 08:46 +0200
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-06-07 19:23 -0400
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2017-06-07 16:50 -0700
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2017-06-08 15:51 +0200
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2017-06-07 17:17 -0600
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-06-07 19:21 -0700
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2017-06-07 21:37 -0600
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2017-06-08 08:40 +0200
Re: How to determine if file is binary or text? gordonb.t9rom@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2017-06-08 12:03 -0500
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