How to view Binary file in HPUX

[Vaibhav_6]

Hi

Can anyone answer this on the forum.I jus dont happen to remeber it.

Thx
Vaibhav

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Use the od command. Man od for details. If you like, you can download and install hexedit from any HP-UX Porting Centre. It's a nice interface and you can edit the file as well as view it.

[Jeff Schussele · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You can also use the strings commands to view text within the binary, i.e. error codes, comments and such.

Rgds,
Jeff

[Mel Burslan]

strings |more

is my way of doing it.

[Sandman!]

Use strings mostly...though od is also helpful in certain situations.

thx

[Raj D.]

Hi Vaibhav ,

You can use strings command , to view an object , data or other binary files.

ex: # strings /etc/lvmtab

You can use od also , but its complex one ,

To display a file in octal, a page at a time, :

# od a.out | pg
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The xd command also allows you to dump a binary to text,
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Cheers ,

RajD.
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[Bill Hassell]

Probably the most useful command is xd (which is really od in disguise). od defaults to octal output which is almost useless today, while xd shows numbers in hex. But xd is really od -x and vice versa, xd -o is the same as od. This is easily explained because it is a single program with a link.

The most useful option set is: xd -xc which shows both the hex numbers as well as the equivalent ASCII displayable characters. Consider these 3 listings of a file with ABC123xyz:

# od xx
0000000 040502 041461 031063 074171 075012
0000012

# xd xx
0000000 4142 4331 3233 7879 7a0a
000000a

# xd -xc xx
0000000 4142 4331 3233 7879 7a0a
A B C 1 2 3 x y z \n
000000a

[Rodney Hills]

Don't forget "cat" and -v option.

cat -v
HTH

-- Rod Hills

[Mahesh Kumar Malik]

Hi Vaibhav

#strings will enable you to view binary file

Regards
Mahesh

[Muthukumar_5]

You can use odump or elfdump based upon binary file type.

Detect file type as,

file

If it is not elf format then,

# odump -all ./

If it is,

# elfdump -cLrs ./

You can also use strings or nm or chatr.

hth.