Questions tagged [file-format]
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What is the purpose of timestamps in unified diffs?
An Example of Unified Format:
--- lao 2002-02-21 23:30:39.942229878 -0800
+++ tzu 2002-02-21 23:30:50.442260588 -0800
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
-The Way that can be told of is not the eternal Way;
-The name ...
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Why 'helix-23.03-aarch64.AppImage' [in debian on x86_64 in Macbook Pro] is giving 'Exec format error'?
It is on debian on x86_64
me@debian:~/bin$ chmod a+x helix-23.03-aarch64.AppImage
me@debian:~/bin$ ./helix-23.03-aarch64.AppImage
/tmp/.mount_helix-RyzFyw/AppRun: 4: exec: /tmp/.mount_helix-RyzFyw/usr/...
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email: Where does the datetime stamp in the From_ line of an mbox mail message stem from?
I am currently working on a program converting mailbox files from an old, tenex based mail format to mbox. The tenex mailbox format has separator lines like the mbox format (the latter is called the ...
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meaning of suffix in hunspell files i.e. `/EPSozm`
When I grep for phan in my hunspell-dic file /usr/share/hunspell/de_DE_frami.dic, I get list of words including
cellophan/Sozm
cellophan/hke
cellophan/ozm
glaukophan/EPSozm
Where do I find ...
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What are the self-healing file formats?
It is known that there are self-healing file systems like e.g. ZFS, Btrfs, bcachefs and self-healing RAM, like e.g. ECC RAM or corresponding software implementations, which can correct single or ...
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Is this type of Linux configuration files format has a name or a way to designate them?
On Linux, each software can decide the configuration format he wishes to use. Some uses TOML, INI, JSON, XML, CSV, YAML, JS, CSS, scripts, and so on.
However, some configuration files use kind of INI-...
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Are .DAT files the same as compressed files in Unix?
Please confirm if .DAT extension files are the same as compressed format files (.zip ) in Unix. As I try to use gzip filename.DAT then is the original 2 GB file size the same after compression? Is ...
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make cut output a certain term when no delimiter found
I am looking for extensions of files and cut simply gives the filename if the file has no extension
so I am looking to make cut give a "extensionless" when no '.' is found
I am using this as ...
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Read-only NTFS flash drive refuses to format
I have this SanDisk Cruzer Edge where it's a write-protected NTFS partition that I got from my dad as I needed a flash drive.
I tried using GParted, didn't work, I saw something online that used the ...
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What does this bcf error mean?
I ran this code to filter out biallelic variants from my vcf file:
bcftools view --max-alleles 2 --exclude-types indels merged.ecDNA.vcf.gz>merged.ecDNA2.vcf.gz
However, I got an error message:
[E:...
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Watch file source code
How can I see all files formats that supported by file binary?
For example file my_bin
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What are the file specifications of a compress .Z file?
For some reason, I am unable to find what the specifications are for a .Z file even though I see many things supporting it. Why is it so hard to find online? I am very familiar with LZW compression ...
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How to format a USB stick to be "Normal"
I'm quite confused about the different format types a USB stick could have (or for that matter, any storage device). On this USB stick, I used to have a distro iso installed, and wanted to make it ...
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How to tell an AppImage file from a regular executable?
The question is pretty much in the title. If I launch the file command on an AppImage I get:
ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64....
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Why does Kali Linux have other existing users from /etc/passwd file? I never created these users
I simply wanted to see my user that I just created in the terminal but I came across this sea of users in my existing Kali Linux vm. The command I used displayed a list of users. It started with "...
