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Reputation: 51

Downloaded file from github is considered binary file?

I'm wondering if its possible to download a binary file (which is actually real code) and convert it into readable characters?

I believe it is UTF-16 and when I try to convert to UTF-6 it shows some characters but not all.

Any idea if I can get this binary file specifically to be converted to a readable file?

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 150

Answers (1)

Stefano Sanfilippo
Stefano Sanfilippo

Reputation: 33116

It's not source code, it's an ELF executable, as you can verify with:

wget --quiet -O - https://github.com/rajiteh/cse3221_project_benchmarker/blob/master/bin/fbq?raw=true | file -

So it can't be converted to readable text in any meaningful way.

If you meant to decompile/disassemble it to recover the source code, that's a different process, for which you will need specialized tools.

Upvotes: 1

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