Challenge 'File Mystery

TechnoDemon · Post by **TechnoDemon** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 3:34 am

I just can say...
WinRAR is the best!!!
huahahahahaha...

SheepEffect · Post by **SheepEffect** » Sun Dec 08, 2013 12:01 pm

MerickOWA wrote:
0mega24 wrote:all things aside above, is there a way to analyze the file and deduce that it is a gzip archive? Other than running it through gzip i mean
Theres a linux/unix utility called 'file' which has a very good list of different file formats and can identify just about anything (that i've found anyway).

Just doing 'file output.bin' for example will generally tell you what a file is. If it can't figure it out it'll just say its 'data'.

Opps, yea... exactly what canine said

How could someone using Windows figure this out? Since this is one of the first challenges out of Neophyte city, I would hope one could do it without running Linux.

Redford · Post by **Redford** » Sun Dec 08, 2013 12:52 pm

SheepEffect wrote: How could someone using Windows figure this out? Since this is one of the first challenges out of Neophyte city, I would hope one could do it without running Unix.

I did it on windows

However, you should know both linux and windows tools and select appropriate one for each challenge.

SheepEffect · Post by **SheepEffect** » Sun Dec 08, 2013 6:37 pm

Redford wrote:I did it on windows

So how did you figure it out?

Redford · Post by **Redford** » Sun Dec 08, 2013 6:59 pm

I think it's not the place for revealing the whole solution, I'll PM you.

one.kamila · Post by **one.kamila** » Wed Jun 13, 2018 3:23 pm

The_Dark_Avenger wrote: gzip...

This is definately the most helpful hint.
I'll add that it won't be gzip itself, but a command to interpret it.

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