See binary files trough terminal ubuntu

aeruzcar · 08-28-2006, 11:52 PM

Hello there, I used gentoo for a while and now I am using ubuntu
on gentoo I could see the biary files nicely with xterm, but I can't do that with ubuntu now
Why is that?

blackhole54 · 08-29-2006, 09:43 AM

What do you mean by "seeing binary files?" You should be able to execute the normal commands. If not, you might check your PATH variable with the command:

echo $PATH

aeruzcar · 08-29-2006, 06:24 PM

What i mean by seeing is that with gentoo I could see the code somehow, with ubuntu I only get things like @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@eiqueiq@@@@@@@@@@@@q
With gpg files too, with gentoo I used to get a nice coded matrix, with ubuntu I only get thing like the above
Thanks

blackhole54 · 08-29-2006, 07:34 PM

I don't know what you were doing with Gentoo, but if you want to look at the contents of binary files you would usually use a tool something like od or hexdump. There are others.