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Ask HN: What software do you use to examine binary files?
There are a few hex/disk editors that support "templates" (but you need most times to create those yourself).
Here is a sort of "curated list" of related tools:
https://github.com/dloss/binary-parsing
The most complete/populated I know of is Kaitai:
http://kaitai.io/
http://formats.kaitai.io/
that you can use with Hiew with Kiewtai
https://github.com/taviso/kiewtai
If the question is slightly different, i.e. which bytes are used to identify a given file format, there is Trid:
https://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html
Which has also a database of known headers/patterns.
Kaitai Struct
- Reverse-engineering an encrypted IoT protocol
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Parsing an Undocumented File Format
- ImHex [2], which has a pattern language [3] which allows parsing, and it seems more powerful than what Kaitai offers. I stumbled upon some limitations with it but it was still useful.
[1]: https://kaitai.io/
- Kaitai Struct – a declarative language used to describe binary data structures
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HTTPie Desktop: cross-platform API testing client for humans
Beautiful. Didn't know something like this exists. Reminds me of Katai[0]
[0]. https://kaitai.io/
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Hacking the LG Monitor's EDID
An EDID override like this would be helpful for macOS as well, where the monitors swapping around after standby is a real annoyance [0] [1]
EDID rewrites are 99% of the time blocked by the monitor firmware: https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Decoding-monitor-EDID-on-macO...
By the way, one helpful tool that helped me navigate the EDID dump was Kaitai Struct [2]. It shows a side by side view with the hex view and the EDID structure, and it highlights the hex values in real time as you navigate the structure. Unfortunately [3] it doesn't support the extension blocks that the author needs.
[0] https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Weird-monitor-bugs
[1] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/external-displays-swapp...
[2] https://kaitai.io/
[3] https://github.com/kaitai-io/edid.ksy
- Kaitai Struct: new way to develop parsers for binary structures
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Fq: Jq for Binary Formats
Kaitai Struct might be a good choice for that: https://kaitai.io/
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Ingesting, parsing and making sense of device log data
For binary log format, there's the excellent Kaitai Struct frameworks, that make it very easy to generate parsers from a declarative schema
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What is this tool? More info in comments
kaitai
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Visual Programming with Elixir: Learning to Write Binary Parsers (2019)
https://kaitai.io/
Worth a look if you are writing binary parsers.
What are some alternatives?
Protobuf - Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
csvkit - A suite of utilities for converting to and working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats.
Camelot - A Python library to extract tabular data from PDFs
tablib - Python Module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML, &c.
PDFMiner - Python PDF Parser (Not actively maintained). Check out pdfminer.six.
PyYAML
rizin - UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset.
Scopt - command line options parsing for Scala
Fast Parse - Writing Fast Parsers Fast in Scala
unoconv - Universal Office Converter - Convert between any document format supported by LibreOffice/OpenOffice.
Python-Markdown - A Python implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown with Extension support.
vcspull - 🔄 Synchronize projects via yaml/json manifest. Built using `libvcs`.