Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install ascii2binary

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Linux

Debian aptverifiziert · 92%

sudo apt install ascii2binary

Debian stable package indexes · ascii2binary · Quelle: deb.debian.org

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Converting Text to Binary and Back

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

ascii2binary
binary2ascii

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

ascii2binary is a pair of C/POSIX command-line programs, `ascii2binary` and `binary2ascii`, for converting between textual representations of numbers and raw binary values. The upstream page frames them as tools for test data generation, binary-file inspection, and glue between text-producing and binary-consuming programs.

Projektgeschichte

The official page documents version 2.14 as current, last modified on 2010-08-29. Its changelog starts at version 2.0, when support for long and long long integers was added, and version 2.1 added the companion `binary2ascii` command.

Later 2.x releases focused on practical conversion details: base selection, internationalization, endianness reporting, script-friendly exit codes, long double support, locale-aware thousands separators, type-size reporting, and packaging-oriented header-name cleanup.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The upstream downloads section links not only tarballs but also Debian, FreeBSD FreshPorts, Open Package, OpenSolaris, SUSE RPM, and Ubuntu package pages. The input package facts show current Homebrew, Debian, and Ubuntu package-manager coverage.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users pipe whitespace-separated textual numbers into `ascii2binary` with flags selecting base and type, then pipe binary data into `binary2ascii` to inspect or reformat it. The official examples show hexadecimal-to-binary conversion, binary-to-hex/binary display, floating-point inspection, width and zero-padding controls, and locale conversion from German to American English number formatting.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

This is a classic small Unix filter package: narrow purpose, POSIX C implementation, man pages, no credentials, no runtime config, and behavior that matters in scripts. Its fine-grained exit codes and locale/type-size options are the sort of details downstream users notice when a converter becomes part of test fixtures or data pipelines.

Zeitleiste

2007-02: Official ascii2binary man page timestamp.
2.0: Adds support for long and long long integers.
2.1: Adds binary2ascii to the package.
2.3: Programs become fully internationalized with a French translation.
2.7: Exit codes are redefined for script-friendly error classes.
2.11: Locale-aware numeric conversion is added.
2010-08: Official page lists version 2.14 as current and last modified.

Related projects

strtod, strtoll, and strtoull are the C library conversion functions named in the official man page.
Downstream package links on the official page include Debian, FreeBSD FreshPorts, Open Package, OpenSolaris, SUSE RPMs, and Ubuntu.

Quellen

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: grün

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Risikoklassifikator

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Warum

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Signale

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Installationsverhalten

In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 13 Plattformziele verfügbar.
Installiert mit 1 Laufzeitabhängigkeiten.

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Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit	Hinweis
`ascii2binary`	cli	globales Executable
`binary2ascii`	cli	globales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

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Seite generiert2026-07-08

Manager-Version2.14

Manager aktualisiert

lokale DatenOK

Upstreamnot checked

neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt

https://billposer.org/Software/a2b.html

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InfoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://billposer.org/Software/a2b.htmlnone Konfidenz

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:ascii2binary
Version	2.14
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Paketmanager-Seite	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ascii2binary
Homepage	https://billposer.org/Software/a2b.html
Upstream-Dokumentation	http://billposer.org/Software/ascii2binary_man.html
Lizenz	GPL-3.0-only
Quellarchiv	https://www.billposer.org/Software/Downloads/ascii2binary-2.14.tar.gz
Abhängigkeiten	gettext
Bottle	verfügbar (auf arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	nicht definiert
Dienst	keiner deklariert

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	ascii2binary
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	stable

Source-Datenbank-Treffer

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.

Debian apt95%

ascii2binary 2.14-1.1+b1

Convert between ASCII, hexadecimal and binary representations

http://billposer.org/Software/a2b.html

sudo apt install ascii2binary

Section: misc
Architecture: amd64
Source Package: ascii2binary
1 Abhängigkeiten
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Ascii2binary

Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: ascii2binary from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

Ubuntu apt95%

ascii2binary 2.14-1.1

Convert between ASCII, hexadecimal and binary representations

http://billposer.org/Software/a2b.html

sudo apt install ascii2binary

Section: universe/misc
Architecture: amd64
1 Abhängigkeiten
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Ascii2binary

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: ascii2binary from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

Paketgraph

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Quellspur

Aus Repository-Daten generiert

Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/ascii2binary.yml

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