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Unix or Linux command to compare binary files [duplicate]
I'm looking for a command that compares binary files.
Of course, I know about diff, but it is not very good at binaries.
I have two files from a error-prone source (scratched dvd) which should be ...
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ldd not showing actual shared libraries address
After having deactivated ASLR, with:
echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
I used ldd /path/to/binary to get the address of the shared library that my binary (written in C) was using, ...
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How to run a program over multiple sessions (machine off and on again)
Is there a way to run a program (command line binary, no interface, no file handling) for a while and then suspend it and later start it again?
Start program and run for a while (e.g. specify "...
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Append N hexadecimal numbers to a binary file with Bash
I have a Bash script that appends bytes written as hexadecimal values. I use echo to write the bytes and it works
hex="1F"
byte="\x$hex"
echo -en $byte >> "output.bin&...
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How to print out all printable ASCII strings contained in binary data?
How can I print out all printable ASCII strings
(e.g., longer than four chars) contained in a binary file?
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How to view the existing files of a drive binary copy?
Greetings
I've been recently studying the concepts of compression and copying in Linux.
When I've been introduced to the dd command, I have found it quite useful, so as an exercise, I bit-by-bit ...
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In Nix, how to make one derivation depend on another next to it?
I'm currently trying to package some closed-source software into Nix derivations. The app is distributed as a large pile of .deb files, and most of them contain libraries that the other parts of the ...
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Detecting used API calls for an application
I need to run a proprietary C++ application under Linux and I need to understand if it contains any functions outside advertised features.
Is there a way to list all the API calls that the application ...
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Circular dependency issues
Do some .deb binary files need each other to be installed and removed?
If so, how do you get around this?
What I observed was that I wanted to install Kodi on an offline PC, but I got stuck with ...
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Directly Replacing Text in Binary File [duplicate]
I have a compiled executable (binary) file - mybin - which grep indicates contains a positive match with a given text string - Cats.
grep "Cats" mybin
Binary file mybin matches
If I use the ...
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Running Linux commands execute hidden command to regenerate Backdoor
My CentOS server compromised, the backdoor uploaded in /var/www/html/, I have deleted the backdoor and browsed the backdoor - to be sure it's deleted - it's surly deleted, but when I run any command ...
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Are FreeBSD binaries compatible with macOS?
Since FreeBSD and macOS (OS X) are very similar to each other, can programs written for FreeBSD run on macOS? And if a program can't, then would it be possible to make it work?
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Shift the address in the hex file with Offset
I want to update the hexfile start address with offset. For example, i have a hex file name abc.hex and start with address 0x0000 to 0xFFFF. But I want to shift the context in the hexfile to the ...
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How to replace stock java with downloaded binary?
In Debian Stable the latest openjdk version available is 17.
$ which -a java
/usr/bin/java
/bin/java
$ java --version
openjdk 17.0.8 2023年07月18日
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 17.0.8+7-Debian-...
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Which portion of boot.log files are binary?
My system keeps seemingly randomly failing to boot after a kernel update. So I am reading logs to try to determine the cause of the issue. Here is one of the boot logs:
$ sudo cat /var/log/boot.log.1
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