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Challenge 'File Mystery
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 2:58 pm
by hunter
can someone help me...or just explain me what should I do in this challenge, I don't understand it at all...
Re: Challenge 'File Mystery
Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:35 pm
by The_Dark_Avenger
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...
Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:57 pm
by therethinker
No answers!
Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 7:26 pm
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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Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 3:19 am
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
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 11:58 pm
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
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:04 am
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.
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:41 pm
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
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:11 pm
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.
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:20 pm
by 0mega24
sweet! thanks for the info!
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 4:45 pm
by soulness
oh!
thanks a lot)
Re: Challenge 'File Mystery
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:13 am
by enoovy
any one know how to take the challenges??
help me please..
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 8:28 pm
by error213
keyword is extract..think
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 9:02 pm
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
cant open BIN file
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 1:14 am
by newbiehacker625
it isnt letting me open the BIN file, i dont want any answers but can someone help me open it?