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bash binary data

Smoggy Seal answered on May 29, 2023 Popularity 1/10 Helpfulness 1/10

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Storing binary data in shell/bash variables

encode() {
  eval "$1"='$(
    shift
    "$@" | xxd -p  -c 0x7fffffff
    exit "${PIPESTATUS[0]}")'
}

decode() {
  printf %s "$1" | xxd -p -r
}

encode var cat /bin/ls &&
  decode "$var" | cmp - /bin/ls && echo OK

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