how to download using wget in binary mode - linux - linux

I need to download *.tar.gz file from server but when I do that, I get an error
ERROR: The ./files.tic seems to be corrupted.
I think it is because it has been downloaded in ASCII mode, and I need to download in binary mode.
How to run wget in binary mode? Or any other command to get binary file.
This file is from http, not ftp.

AFAIK the MIME type for the file does not change its contents. So you should be already getting the right representation of it. HTTP protocol does not have text/binary types for data. Data is data :)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol#Response_message for further info.

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CRLF tags attached upon FTP upload from a windows to Linux Server

I am uploading the files in a FTP folder from Windows server to a Linux server. Files come in different extensions but can be opened using notepad or notpad++.
I am getting issues that CR & CRLF are getting attached after FTP upload to Linux from Windows.
I am uploading a file from windows in the below format
This is the file after FTP Upload to Linux server. We can see many CR and CRLF tags getting attached, which shouldn't be the case.
I need the files in the below format in Linux (With only LF tags attached)
For FTP from windows to Linux, I am using the Batch Script as below..
open XXXXXXXXXX.net
UID
PASSWORD
cd METS
cd MARVELRAIL
binary
mput E:\METS+_BULK_UPLOAD\BULK_FOLDERS\OUT\DISCH\*.*
quit
Can you help me where I am going wrong and how to beat this issue...
Thank in advance.
If you want the files to be converted to *nix line endings, do not use a binary mode, use an ascii mode.
The ascii mode is the default one, so removing binary command should be enough.
Or you can explicitly use ascii command.

Unable to extract shape_predictor_68_face_landmarks.dat for bz

I am trying to run some face frontalization code (using Python3 on Windows10), the code uses opencv and dlib and requires a file called shape_predictor_68_face_landmarks.dat. The code tries to automatically download it and then unzip it but it fails to unzip giving an unexpected end of archive error. I tried to use WinRaR to repair the file (which I also tried manualy downloading from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dclib/files/dlib/v18.10/shape_predictor_68_face_landmarks.dat.bz2) but it says it can only repair .zip and .rar files.
Does anyone know where I can download the uncompressed .dat file from? Or alternatively how I can repair a damaged .bz file in Windows?
The file is available at
http://dlib.net/files/shape_predictor_68_face_landmarks.dat.bz2
I downloaded it and verified that extraction works. The file is smaller than the one used in the previous version, but I think that is due to improvements.
In case this does not work, let me (or Davis King, who maintains the dlib blog) know so that you can get the uncompressed version.
Downloading using the CLI is a lot easier.
wget http://dlib.net/files/shape_predictor_68_face_landmarks.dat.bz2
To decompress the compressed file you just downloaded, use the following command
bzip2 -d shape_predictor_68_face_landmarks.dat.bz2
As mentioned above, download shape_predictor_68_face_landmarks.dat
from here. But while downloading, downloads gets failed(i faced this issue). So, if you're also facing the same issue, then i recommend to download it via command-line:
$ wget link

Install4j Linux installer not working

I made installers for my application, it works on Windows and Mac, but when I try to run the .sh installer file on linux, it fails with this error:
gzip: sfx_archive.tar.gz: not in gzip format
I am sorry, but the installer file seems to be corrupted. If you downloaded that file please try it again. If you transfer that file with ftp please make sure that you are using binary mode.
How can I solve this?
Thanks.
The error message describes the probable reason:
I am sorry, but the installer file seems to be corrupted. If you
downloaded that file please try it again. If you transfer that file with
ftp please make sure that you are using binary mode.
You probably transferred it to the Linux machine in such a way that the line endings were replaced or the installer script was truncated.
This may be because you opened the file in a text viewer, which can change some aspects of the file. Try redownloading it and running it without opening it.
chmod +x install_file.sh
./install_file.sh
I imagine the problem is that you're attempting to extract sfx_archive.tar.gz using tar with the z flag, and that it's not actually gzip compressed.
I would try substituting your current tar command with the following:
tar -xvf sfx_archive.tar.gz

Zip files corrupt over 4 gigabytes - No warnings or errors - Did I lose my data?

I created a bunch of zip files on my computer (Mac OS X) using a command like this:
zip -r bigdirectory.zip bigdirectory
Then, I saved these zip files somewhere and deleted the original directories.
Now, when I try to extract the zip files, I get this kind of error:
$ unzip -l bigdirectory.zip
Archive: bigdirectory.zip
warning [bigdirectory.zip]: 5162376229 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile
(attempting to process anyway)
error [bigdirectory.zip]: start of central directory not found;
zipfile corrupt.
(please check that you have transferred or created the zipfile in the
appropriate BINARY mode and that you have compiled UnZip properly)
I have since discovered that this could be because zip can't handle files over a certain size, maybe 4 gigs. At least I read that somewhere.
But why would the zip command let me create these files? The zip file in question is 9457464293 bytes and it let me make many more like this with absolutely no errors.
So clearly it can create these files.
I really hope my files aren't lost. I've learned my lesson and in the future I will check my archives before deleting the original files, and I'll probably also use another file format like tar/gzip.
For now though, what can I do? I really need my files.
Update
Some people have suggested that my unzip tool did not support big enough files (which is weird, because I used the builtin OS X zip and unzip). At any rate, I installed a new unzip from homebrew, and lo and behold, I do get a different error now:
$ unzip -t bigdirectory.zip
testing: bigdirectory/1.JPG OK
testing: bigdirectory/2.JPG OK
testing: bigdiretoryy/3.JPG OK
testing: bigdirectory/4.JPG OK
:
:
file #289: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 4294967295
(attempting to re-compensate)
file #289: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 4294967295
file #290: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 9457343448
file #291: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 9457343448
file #292: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 9457343448
file #293: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 9457343448
:
:
This is really worrisome because I need these files back. And there were definitely no errors upon creation of this zip file using the system zip tool. In fact, I made several of these at the same time and now they are all exhibiting the same problem.
If the file really is corrupt, how do I fix it?
Or, if it is not corrupt, how do I extract it?
Unzip below 6 seemingly fails, use
jar -xf <zipfile>
if you have java installed, or yet another unzip before you write the file off.
See: https://serverfault.com/questions/235139/how-to-unzip-files-bigger-than-4gb
Try 7z x
I had the same issue with unzip %x on Linux for a .zip file larger than 4GB, compounded with a only DEFLATED entries can have EXT descriptor error.
The command 7z x resolved all my issues though.
Be careful though, the command 7z x will extract all files with a path rooted in the current directory. The option -o allows to specify an output directory.
I had a similar problem backing up a 12GB directory before performing a hard disk format. Funnily enough I used the same command as you.
I read around and found suggestions to run:
zip -F
and
zip -FF
to try to fix the file.
Unfortunately these did not work and I still received errors.
After looking around some more, I found the ditto command and it worked perfectly against my original (untouched) zip file:
ditto -x -k original-file.zip dst-directory
-x to extract an archive
-k Specifies it to be a PKZip archive instead of the default CPIO
After using this command, I successfully extracted all of the files.
The built-in macOS Archive Utility (which is the default used when you select something in Finder and go to File -> Compress "<item>") also creates "corrupt" archives when a file in the archive is over 4 gigabytes in size, the size of the archive itself is over 4 gigabytes or you are trying to compress more than 65536 files into a single zip. This happens because it doesn't use the Zip64 extension format.
This is mentioned on https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/221020/large-zip-files-created-in-os-x-cannot-be-opened-in-windows and is well covered in the "Apple Archive Utility (and ditto) and very large ZIP archives" 2009 blog post for the now defunct Springy utility. You can also see the 7-Zip folks are aware of the Apple tools creating corrupt zips issue too.
But why would the zip command let me create these files?
Strictly speaking, the original zip format only supports archives up to 2^32 bytes (4GiB) and which do not contain files that were originally larger than 4GiB and you there must be less than 65535 files. Because the command line version of the Infozip command tools shipped with OSX up to version OSX 10.11 (El Capitan) was no newer than 5.52, it could only produce non-conformant archives if you forced it to exceed the original zip format limits. Infozip 6.0 and above know how to make Zip64 archives and that standard has much higher limits. The Infozip 6.0 command line tools started shipping with macOS 10.12 (Sierra). In 2014 when the question was originally asked the newest OSX was 10.10 (Yosemite).
As stated above, even in macOS 10.15 (Catalina) the GUI Archive Utility still creates such "corrupt" zips.
If the file really is corrupt, how do I fix it?
It's corrupt in the sense that its non-conformant and will cause a lot of conformant tools to choke. You could extract (it see below) and then compress again with a tool that knows how to make Zip64 files...
Or, if it is not corrupt, how do I extract it?
Technically, all of the data from the files that have been compressed is still in the archive but the headers that allow fast listing of the zip's content are broken. Such zips can be a struggle to work with when using other tools (even testing such a zip with the command line unzip tool on the same version of macOS can indicate issues like invalid compressed data to inflate / bad zipfile offset (local header sig)).
To get at the files of such zips you need to use a program that will quietly just extract whatever was compressed without checking for conformance or trying to check/list the files. Examples of tools that can do this are:
macOS Archive Utility GUI tool
macOS command line tool ditto
7-zip
Java's jar tool
Infozip based tools won't be able to work with or repair such zip files once you've made such a problem zip file.
you can use
zip -FF corrupted.zip --out fixed.zip
replace corrupted.zip by your zip with issues
replace fixed.zip by the name of new .zip file fixed
I have faced exactly the same issue when I tried to unzip zip files of huge sizes (~7GB). I was damn sure that there was no error while copying the zip files to the server. (I double-checked it with rsync).
Depending on your situation, the solution is:
1) If you're doing this in a local machine, right click on the zip file and give Extract Here, this will work for (.zip) files of any size.
2) If your zip files are in a remote server, first load the server filesystem locally using sftp (sftp://username#server.url.address.com). After that just navigate to the directory and again do the same thing as you did in (1). i.e. right click on the zip file and extract it.
Might not be the best solution but that's one way of doing it.

For some reason wget downloads an 8 byte file instead of the original

Downloading this specific file http://www5.mp4upload.com:182/d/skxswmshz3b4quuof6ue2kskcg2hdh7otrmeb56mjbszssvgh22btuy6/video.mp4
using wget like so
wget http://www5.mp4upload.com:182/d/skxswmshz3b4quuof6ue2kskcg2hdh7otrmeb56mjbszssvgh22btuy6/video.mp4
Seems to only download an 8 byte file, while using this link in your browser correctly grabs and downloads the whole file. What is the issue in this case?

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