Questions tagged [binary]
Questions involving binary file format, like the executables among others.
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What are some good GUI binary viewers/editors?
What are some GUI applications that will let me view and edit binary files (executables, images, etc.).
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What is the difference between an NVIDIA legacy binary proprietary driver and a binary only proprietary driver?
What is the difference between an NVIDIA legacy binary proprietary driver and a binary only proprietary driver?
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Bash: ./filename : Cannot execute binary file
I couldn't execute a fortran compiled code in ubuntu 11.10 32 bit.
Error message is
bash: ./filename : Cannot execute binary file.
I've installed the gcc and gfortran libraries too.
Could anyone ...
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Launch Sublime Text 2 from terminal [duplicate]
I am new to Ubuntu and is trying to configure my environment so i can launch Sublime Text 2 directly from the terminal. I followed the solution on this post but no luck so far.
These are steps I did (...
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What is ~/.face (binary)?
I just noticed this file, .face, in my home directory:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14747 2012-01-07 01:35 .face
Never seen it or heard of it before, and google doesn't seem to know either. ...
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How do I query the gvfs metadata for a specific attribute? [closed]
A nice feature in evince is that when you close the program and later reopen the same pdf, it automatically jumps to the page you were reading. The problem I have is that I often read ebooks on ...
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A binary file exists but shell says no such file
I'm using the Ubuntu in UserLAnd on an android.
I just installed from the Android SDK Manager sdkmanager cmake 3.18.1.
Now, I can see the cmake executable from its directory cmake/3.18.1/bin byls, ...
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Where is the main Firefox binary?
I want to optimize my graphical experience with multiple plug-ins on Firefox (Specifically CFX) but for that to work, I need to specify the binary of Firefox so that the driver could force the ...
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How do I edit the binary or hexadecimal data of a file in Ubuntu?
Disclaimer: This is not the same as What are some good GUI binary viewers/editors?.
How do I edit the binary data of a file in a gedit like editor? Eg:
00001010101010010101
And how do I edit the ...
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Where can I find Chromium binary tarballs?
Firefox's website provides binary tarballs that I can easily extract and run, is there anything similar available for either Chrome or Chromium?
If not, how can I compile so I can run it the same way ...
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How to open and read SQLite files
I am trying to recover something from Mozilla Firefox history, and grep returns lots of binary files, I think they come from sqlite content. How can I view them in human-readable form, as text? At the ...
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Can't install Discovery Studio Visualizer
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I ran .bin file through terminal to install DS Visualizer, but i got the following errors:
./install_DSClient.sh: 49: ./install_DSClient.sh: [[: not found
./...
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Do dconf use EXI binary XML?
A question came to my mind reading an answer to the question What are the differences between gconf and dconf?.
In an reply to the above question, Oli said:
Binary read access is far faster than ...
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Making a symlink for a bin file and renaming it to "readme" (w/o extension) gives it text file properties
When I create a symlink for a bin file(on Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04) and rename it "readme", it shows as a link to text file. Also, when i checked the properties of this file, it says "Link to text/...
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Different output for ldd between sudo and root
on my system, the output for ldd /usr/bin/openssl differers between the regular user, root and sudo.
This is the output for the regular user:
$ whoami
myname
$ ldd /usr/bin/openssl
linux-vdso.so.1 ...
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Windows converted my folders conataining .jpg files into Binary (application/octet-stream) type
im kind of beginner in linux though i have been using them since 2011. Anyway my problem is that while i connected my ssd in a windows desktop, i was asked if i could let windows fix some problems ...
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