I have several large files (3-6 Gb) of 1’s and 0’s characters in ASCII and I would like to convert it to a simply binary file. Newlines are not important and should be discarded.
test.bin below is 568 bytes, I would like the 560 bit file.
01110001100000001010001000001001000111110100101010000010010100001110001001100011010100001101110000100010000010000000000001011000010011111100010000100001000001000001011101110101111100011111100011100110001010001100111010001000011111110000011111101111111011011000000110000101011000010000000110110001000000000001000011110100000101101000001000010001010011110110111101010101111000111000001001100110010110110100011111110111010110000011001011010101111101111101011000000000110010001000000000110011100101101001110010011110000100101001001111010011100100001001111111100110I’ve found several solutions going the other way, converting a binary file into ASCII but not the other way.
Ideally I’m looking for a simple linux / bash solution but I could live with a python solution. =================== Edit ==================
To make this less confusing consider converting any two ASCII characters into a binary file.
test_XY_encoded.txt
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 X represents the binary 0 and Y represents the binary 1.
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Answer
How about this bash command?
cat test.bin | tr -d 'n' | perl -lpe '$_=pack"B*",$_' > true_binary.txt‘tr’ will delete all newline characters, and the perl command converts to binary.