What to do with application/octet files from Google Cloud storage?

Question

I've extracted a large volume of Google Big Query data into Google Cloud storage. The files are transferred into a file format application/octet. I have no idea how to process this file type.

How can I convert this into something more familiar, ideally csv?

Answer 1

Just for posterity, as Graham mentioned "application/octet-stream" is not actually the file format just the HTTP content-type of the file. Depending on how you exported the file from BigQuery (using compression? which file format?) you should be able to just open it.