how to convert bin like to text ?
 

Hello

I have a file without LR LF, and linux thinks that it is a bin.
How can I format it so that I can cat/read it?

thanks

It seems that anything other than plain text has some kind of signature at the beginning. Is that not what Linux uses to decide how to read a file?

Try doing "cat filename|hexdump -C|more" to see what's actually there.

Some text editors will allow you to read a binary file, others won't. I know gedit will not display a binary file. I know that kwrite and mped will display a binary file.

The best editor choice is probably ghex. ghex displays any file both as hexadecimal and ascii and allows you to edit it either as hexadecimal or as ascii.

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Steve Stites

If you just want to read the file goto a terminal and run mc (midnight commander)
navigate to the file highlight it then hit F3

How about
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If it is just a DOS text file with CRLF line-endings, this simple command will transform it into a Unix texe file (LF line-endings):

tr -d '\r' </path/to/DosTextFile >/path/to/new/UnixTextFile

Yves.

Try dos2unix

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