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Entropy: whats the difference between bits and bytes?
If I use openssl to generate some random data (for a keyfile, for example):
openssl rand -hex 2048 >/tmp/file
Is this 4097 bits (or bytes?) of entropy?
-rw-rw-r-- 1 username username 4097 Oct 30 ...
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How do I trim bytes from the beginning and end of a file?
I have a file, that has trash (binary header and footer) at the beginning and end of the file. I would like to know how to nuke these bytes. For an example, let's assume 25 bytes from the beginning. ...
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Byte count of “ls -l <random file>” versus that of “wc -c <random file>”
Is there any possible situation when
ls -l file.txt
is showing not the same number of bytes as
wc -c file.txt
In one script I found comparison of those two values. What could be the reason of ...
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Is there a oneliner that converts a binary file from little endian to big endian?
and vice versa.
I am running a RedHat if relevant.
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What options does wget --report-speed take?
When I do this command:
wget --report-speed=type
they only type it accepts is bits. It won't have numbers, kilobits / kilobytes or bytes.
The help page (wget --help) says:
--report-speed=TYPE ...
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How to bury an invisible mark into lines of text?
How can I bury an invisible mark into random lines of text? Such a mark has to be there, though it will be invisible to someone reading that text printed out on the console.
I want to identify those ...
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How large is the Linux kernel compared to Unix? [closed]
Not in just LOC (lines of code), but in storage size, as in bytes, megabytes, gigabytes, etc.
Also, any sources where I can download the original-based Unix OS? Thanks!
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Why is od calculating decimal values wrong?
This question is related to the answer from enzotib to the question: How could I use Bash to find 2 bytes in a binary file, increase their values, and replace?
This converts the two bytes into its ...
