If you ever need to write a binary file from a traditional language like C, it isn’t all that hard ... One answer is to use a tool like xxd or t2b (text-to-binary) to handle the details.

Executable software (machine language programs), most word processing, database, spreadsheet and multimedia files are binary files. However, text and source program files as well as HTML and XML ...

Here are eight Linux commands for looking into binary files and viewing details about what executables are doing when they run. Any file on a Linux system that isn’t a text file is considered a ...