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Binsider – A TUI for analyzing Linux binaries

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Re: Binsider – A TUI for analyzing Linux binaries

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Post by q3k »

I don't really get why this is a TUI. Any time I actually hack on this sort of stuff, I'd rather have the outputs (eg. symbols, ELF sections/segments, strings, ...) directly on stdout so I can then further filter stuff or otherwise process it. Especially strings!

The only part of this tool that seems to merit a TUI is the hex view...

Re: Binsider – A TUI for analyzing Linux binaries

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Post by IggleSniggle »

q3k wrote: post #3

I don't really get why this is a TUI. Any time I actually hack on this sort of stuff, I'd rather have the outputs (eg. symbols, ELF sections/segments, strings, ...) directly on stdout so I can then further filter stuff or otherwise process it. Especially strings! The only part of this tool that seems to merit a TUI is the hex view...

Sometimes you really want to make a TUI videogame but can't think of a good roguelike design so you just start hacking away at what you're curious about.

I can see this tool being a fun introduction to many things you would normally want to keep as separate tools you can glue together, and was probably also just a chance for them to exercise the TUI library they also created.

Re: Binsider – A TUI for analyzing Linux binaries

#5

Post by fuhsnn »

q3k wrote: post #3

I don't really get why this is a TUI. Any time I actually hack on this sort of stuff, I'd rather have the outputs (eg. symbols, ELF sections/segments, strings, ...) directly on stdout so I can then further filter stuff or otherwise process it. Especially strings! The only part of this tool that seems to merit a TUI is the hex view...

"llvm-readelf --elf-output-style=JSON | jq" is handy.

Re: Binsider – A TUI for analyzing Linux binaries

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Post by q3k »

fuhsnn wrote: post #5
q3k wrote: post #3

I don't really get why this is a TUI. Any time I actually hack on this sort of stuff, I'd rather have the outputs (eg. symbols, ELF sections/segments, strings, ...) directly on stdout so I can then further filter stuff or otherwise process it. Especially strings! The only part of this tool that seems to merit a TUI is the hex view...

"llvm-readelf --elf-output-style=JSON | jq" is handy.

That's a neat trick!

Re: Binsider – A TUI for analyzing Linux binaries

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Post by [deleted] »

IggleSniggle wrote: post #4
q3k wrote: post #3

I don't really get why this is a TUI. Any time I actually hack on this sort of stuff, I'd rather have the outputs (eg. symbols, ELF sections/segments, strings, ...) directly on stdout so I can then further filter stuff or otherwise process it. Especially strings! The only part of this tool that seems to merit a TUI is the hex view...

Sometimes you really want to make a TUI videogame but can't think of a good roguelike design so you just start hacking away at what you're curious about. I can see this tool being a fun introduction to many things you would normally want to keep as separate tools you can glue together, and was probably also just a chance for them to exercise the TUI library they also created.

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