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fq
Tool, language and format decoders for exploring binary data.
Goals
- Make binary formats accessible and queryable.
- Nested formats and bit-oriented decoding.
- Quick and comfortable CLI tool.
- Bit and byte transformations and conversions.
- Programmer's calculator.
NOTE: fq is early in development and many things are missing, broken or do not make sense. That also means there is a great opportunity to help out.
Usage
Basic usage is: fq . file. For details see usage.md.
Install
Download archive from releases page for your
platform, unarchive and move the executable to PATH.
Homebrew
# install latest release
brew install wader/tap/fq
Build from source
Make sure you have go 1.17 or later installed.
To install directly from git repository do:
# build and install latest release
go install github.com/wader/fq@latest
# or build and install latest master
go install github.com/wader/fq@master
# copy binary to $PATH if needed
cp "$(go env GOPATH)/bin/fq" /usr/local/bin
To build and run tests from source directory:
make test fq
# copy binary to $PATH if needed
cp fq /usr/local/bin
Supported formats
aac_frame, adts, adts_frame, apev2, av1_ccr, av1_frame, av1_obu, avc_annexb, avc_au, avc_dcr, avc_nalu, avc_pps, avc_sei, avc_sps, bzip2, dns, elf, exif, flac, flac_frame, flac_metadatablock, flac_metadatablocks, flac_picture, flac_streaminfo, gif, gzip, hevc_annexb, hevc_au, hevc_dcr, hevc_nalu, icc_profile, id3v1, id3v11, id3v2, jpeg, json, matroska, mp3, mp3_frame, mp4, mpeg_asc, mpeg_es, mpeg_pes, mpeg_pes_packet, mpeg_spu, mpeg_ts, ogg, ogg_page, opus_packet, png, protobuf, protobuf_widevine, pssh_playready, raw, tar, tiff, vorbis_comment, vorbis_packet, vp8_frame, vp9_cfm, vp9_frame, vpx_ccr, wav, webp, xing
For details see formats.md.
TODO and ideas
See TODO.md.
Development
See dev.md.
Thanks and related projects
This project would not be possible without itchyny's jq implementation gojq. Also want to thank HexFiend for inspiration and ideas and stedolan for inventing the jq language.
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