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Title says it all. I'm on a unix machine, can't figure it out. Sublime Text 2 opens the PNG as Hex and TextMate as ASCII. I need binary. How can I do it?

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This makes very little sense. What exactly are you trying to do? – Michael Mrozek♦ Nov 16 '12 at 6:48
cat? (filler filler) – Michael Kjörling Nov 16 '12 at 9:24
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And keep in mind that binary doens't make that much sense unless you're dealing with bitmaps (as in, black and white images). For that, you may be interested in converting to the ASCII variant of the Portable BitMap (pbm), which is, indeed, zeros and ones in ASCII. – njsg Nov 16 '12 at 16:08

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xxd(1) can do this:

$ cat test.txt
Test.
$ xxd -b test.txt
0000000: 01010100 01100101 01110011 01110100 00101110 00001010 Test..

From this forum post.

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