Challenge 'File Mystery

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hunter
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Challenge 'File Mystery

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can someone help me...or just explain me what should I do in this challenge, I don't understand it at all...
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The_Dark_Avenger
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Re: Challenge 'File Mystery

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hunter wrote:can someone help me...or just explain me what should I do in this challenge, I don't understand it at all...
gzip... :wink:
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No answers! :?
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Post by anantshri »

sorry if it sound rude but if you can't ge the answer after the above hint you don't deserve to be here.
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Post by Xeyes »

On this one you're right anantshri but it's therethinker saying he shouldn't give answers not saying it doesn't help him
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Post by 0mega24 »

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
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Post by canine »

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

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$ curl "http://www.hacker.org/challenge/misc/fl.bin" | file -
Not difficult.
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Post by MerickOWA »

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 ;)
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Post by canine »

MerickOWA wrote: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 ;)
Indeed, there's probably a GNU utility to do pretty much anything you need to do, and if there isn't you can just string a few together in a pipeline to do it.

Remember: don't reinvent the wheel.
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sweet! thanks for the info! :D
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Post by soulness »

oh! :)
thanks a lot)
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Re: Challenge 'File Mystery

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any one know how to take the challenges??
help me please.. :(
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Post by error213 »

keyword is extract..think
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Post by laz0r »

Try saving the file as a .txt . Then you simply find the values of each individual character that appears and there you have it
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newbiehacker625
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cant open BIN file

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it isnt letting me open the BIN file, i dont want any answers but can someone help me open it?
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