how to revert a binary dump file?

Question

a binary dump file is like a hex dump file except that it is in binary form instead of hex

now I've got a binary dump file looks like this:

01101110 01101100 01000001 01000001 01000001 00101011 00110001 01011010
01001000 00110100 01110011 01001001 01000001 01000011 01001010 01001011
...

and I know the original file was a normal text file, so how can I revert or say recover it from the dump file?

it's just an example and the language of the original file is not english :) — chrisyue, Nov 10 '12 at 20:14

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 10 '12 at 20:01

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sounds like uuencode is your friend :) I checked it and on my Fedora 17 package is called: perl-Convert-UU

answered Nov 10 '12 at 20:01

Peter Butkovic

iabdalkader · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-11T17:27:27.897

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you can use python, something like this:

import re
f = open('dump', 'r')
token= re.split(r'[ \n]', f.read())
map (lambda (t):  chr(int(t, 2)), token)

edited Nov 11 '12 at 17:27

answered Nov 10 '12 at 20:05

iabdalkader

I don't know python and the code doesn't work on my machine (re is not defined), but I've got your point and wrote a php script to do the same thing – chrisyue Nov 11 '12 at 03:52
@chrisyue great, if you want the python code to work too, `import re` first – iabdalkader Nov 11 '12 at 17:27

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