Software to convert text to and from binary, written as a string of 1s and 0s.
To compile, simply run make, and the bin2txt and txt2bin binaries will be generated.
To use bin2txt, pipe a series of 1s and 0s in and it will output them… or just type them. Currently, it assumes each character is 8 bits.
Example of using a pipe to input 1s and 0s:
% echo "01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00100000 01010111 01101111 01110010 01101100 01100100 00100001 00001010"|./bin2txt
Hello World!
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Example of using a file to input 1s and 0s:
% ./bin2txt < binfile_hello
Hello World!
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Example of just typing everything in:
% ./bin2txt
01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00100000 01010111 01101111 01110010 01101100 01100100 00100001 00001010
Hello World!
To use txt2bin, pipe 8-bit characters into it (variable-width utf-8 works, by the way). It will then output them in 8-bit binary, with a space every 8 bits, and a newline when the program terminates.
Example of using a pipe to input text to convert to binary:
% echo "Hello World\!"|./txt2bin
01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00100000 01010111 01101111 01110010 01101100 01100100 00100001 00001010
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Example of using a file to input text to convert to binary:
% ./txt2bin < file_hello
01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00100000 01010111 01101111 01110010 01101100 01100100 00100001 00001010
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Example of just typing everything in:
% ./txt2bin
Hello World!
01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00100000 01010111 01101111 01110010 01101100 01100100 00100001 00001010
Backwards compatibility with the binaries may be broken in the future in order to add more functionality (e.g, support for encodings other than utf-8).