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Asked: 2026-05-19T14:24:16+00:00

I have this script file here that contains a lot of odd characters such

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I have this script file here that contains a lot of odd characters such as these

EOT NUL SOH DLE CAN FF SYN BS US FS à 8 F ÿ ÷ 6 ï

Can anyone tell me what language this is? From about 2 hours Googling around I’ve broken down and asked here. I found that it matches ASCII characters somewhat but when I put it into ASCII decoders it comes back as ??? plus the characters are in black boxes that won’t copy to my clipboard. I don’t really care so much about decoding it as getting regular text to that language. Ff it is encrypted can anyone tell me method used? It’s a shell script from what I can tell because i can run it using terminal emulator on my Android phone.

Thank you for any help

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    ‘file’ says:

    btool: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

    And objdump -R says:

    btool:     file format elf32-little

DYNAMIC RELOCATION RECORDS
OFFSET   TYPE              VALUE
00009154 UNKNOWN           __sF
00009124 UNKNOWN           _ZN7android7String8D1Ev
00009128 UNKNOWN           printf
0000912c UNKNOWN           _ZN7android16BackupDataReaderC1Ei
00009130 UNKNOWN           puts
00009134 UNKNOWN           __libc_init
00009138 UNKNOWN           fprintf
0000913c UNKNOWN           _ZN7android16BackupDataReader16ReadEntityHeaderEPNS_7String8EPj
00009140 UNKNOWN           strcmp
00009144 UNKNOWN           _ZN7android7String8C1Ev
00009148 UNKNOWN           _ZN7android16BackupDataReader14ReadNextHeaderEPbPi
0000914c UNKNOWN           _ZN7android16BackupDataReaderD1Ev
00009150 UNKNOWN           open

    ‘file’s manpage says about it’s history:

    There has been a file command in every UNIX since at least Research Version 4 (man page dated November, 1973). The System V version introduced one significant major change: the external list of magic types. This slowed the program down slightly but made it a lot more flexible.

    This program, based on the System V version, was written by Ian Darwin without looking at anybody else’s source code.

    John Gilmore revised the code extensively, making it better than the first version. Geoff Collyer found several inade-quacies and provided some magic file entries. Contributions by the `&’ operator by Rob McMahon, cudcv@warwick.ac.uk, 1989.

    Guy Harris, guy@netapp.com, made many changes from 1993 to the present.

    Primary development and maintenance from 1990 to the present by Christos Zoulas (christos@astron.com).

    Altered by Chris Lowth, chris@lowth.com, 2000: Handle the -i option to output mime type strings, using an alternative magic file and internal logic.

    Altered by Eric Fischer (enf@pobox.com), July, 2000, to identify character codes and attempt to identify the languages of non-ASCII files.

    Altered by Reuben Thomas (rrt@sc3d.org), 2007 to 2008, to improve MIME support and merge MIME and non-MIME magic, supportdirectories as well as files of magic, apply many bug fixes and improve the build system.

    The list of contributors to the `magic’ directory (magic files) is too long to include here. You know who you are; thank you. Many contributors are listed in the source files.

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