Examining an ELF binary with binutils

$strings a.out /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 libc.so.6 printf __libc_start_main __gmon_start__ GLIBC_2.2.5 fffff. []A\A]A^A_ hello ;*3$” GCC: (Debian 4.9.2-10) 4.9.2 GCC: (Debian 4.8.3-13) 4.8.3 hello.c long unsigned int short unsigned int short int GNU C 4.9.2 -mtune=generic -march=x86-64 -g unsigned char long int sizetype main hello.c /home/jeffrin .symtab .strtab .shstrtab .interp .note.ABI-tag .note.gnu.build-id .gnu.hash .dynsym .dynstr .gnu.version .gnu.version_r .rela.dyn …

Hacking with listing local system locks

ABOUT lslocks lslocks lists information about all the currently held file locks in a Linux system. File locking is a mechanism that restricts access to a computer file by allowing only one user or process access at any specific time. Systems implement locking to prevent the classic interceding update scenario (see race condition). [bash] $lslocks …

Hacking with an arbitrary precision calculator

dc is a reverse-polish desk calculator which supports unlimited preci‐ sion arithmetic. It also allows you to define and call macros. Nor‐ mally dc reads from the standard input; if any command arguments are given to it, they are filenames, and dc reads and executes the contents of the files before reading from standard input. …

A program to solve project euler problem 11

[python] # This program is copied from http://code.jasonbhill.com/python/project-euler-problem-11/ # Largest product in a grid # https://projecteuler.net/problem=11 import time start = time.time() L = [] L.append("08 02 22 97 38 15 00 40 00 75 04 05 07 78 52 12 50 77 91 08") L.append("49 49 99 40 17 81 18 57 60 87 17 …

Hacking with the quote command on Bash shell

ABOUT Quoting Quoting is used to remove the special meaning of certain characters or words to the shell. Quoting can be used to disable special treatment for special characters, to prevent reserved words from being recognized as such, and to prevent parameter expansion. Each of the shell metacharacters (*note Definitions::) has special meaning to the …