Conversion Tools: General UniX Conversion Tools

UNIX OS's provide a plethora of excellent tools to convert binary or text files. They may even combined together if you use them in a UNIX environment, though some of them are available in DOS/Windows versions too.

For an overview of text utilities look at: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/text or http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/text.
platform: Linux and others

For an overview of binary file utilities look at: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/file or http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/file .
platform: Linux, and others

• GNU Textutils
• AWK
• SED
• DD (EBCDIC < - >ASCII)
• OD
• XDD (Binaries ->Hexdump)
• STRINGS
• TR
• CPIO
• UUENCODE, UUDECODE
• PERLThe Perl Language Home Page Perl is the conversion tool par excellence. Introduction to regular expressions in perl by Tom Christiansen at ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/plan/perl/CPAN/doc/FMTEYEWTK/regexps.html
• • perl-Convert-BER-1.18-1 Convert-BER module for perl
  • perl-Convert-BinHex-1.119-1 Convert-BinHex module for perl
  • perl-Convert-EBCDIC-0.05-1 Convert-EBCDIC module for perl
  • perl-Convert-Recode-1.03-1 Convert-Recode module for perl
  • perl-Convert-SciEng-0.90-1 Convert-SciEng module for perl
  • perl-Convert-Translit-1.03-1Convert-Translit module for perl
  • perl-Convert-UU-0.20-1 Convert-UU module for perl