Unix Executable File Converter For Mac

Jan 01, 2011  When I click 'get info' for the document, it indicates that it is a 'Unix executable file' and the file itself is big, 1.3MB. Are there any applications out there that can read a UNIX execut. File (or a way to convert this file to one that can be read on my Mac. All old system 9 appleworks files are now unix executable files. Mac Help Forums. Parallels desktop 13 for mac bundle deal. Forums > Mac Software > Mac Applications > Unix Executable File. Discussion in 'Mac Applications' started by mgrandoni, Feb 11, 2008. Mgrandoni New Member. You can convert the files to either Rich Text Document or Text File or something else that is.

I'm sorting through a bunch of old writings & am running across a large number of files, which are exe's rather than doc or docx or txt or any other normal text doc format. I am almost positive that all of these writings were done in Microsoft Word for Mac (probably) 2004. Similar to lsblk for mac. There are gibberish characters at the header & footers but the body text has all seemed intact, from what I've glanced at. I am curious about how this might have happened, but my priority right now is just reconverting these files back to a simple text format. There are hundreds of documents, mostly notes, but some finished pieces and I would much prefer to not have to go in & remove the junk text from all of them by hand.

So.what are my options? Could you upload a representative file, to e.g., and provide the download URL, so we can get a better handle on your issue?

That would be preferable however if not, then at the least, you need to run the following commands in a Terminal and add the output to your question. File filename where filename is the name of the file.

In a Terminal type 'file ', that's 'file ' followed by a space file, then drag & drop the file on the Terminal window and press enter. Word for combine into one. Then do, cat filename head -c 8 xxd -p. Continued in next comment.

– Jun 23 '16 at 14:36. The file you can be opened, for proper display, in, which by the way is free. I was also able to convert this file via the command line to a plain text document using LibreOffice's executable soffice using the following syntax: /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice --headless --convert-to txt $FileNameToConvert Example: /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice --headless --convert-to txt '& hitting number three on 3' The above command created the '& hitting number three on 3.txt' file and I then opened it in TextEdit and it displayed properly as it should. You can batch convert the documents in the same manner by using a wildcard (an asterisk), e.g.: /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice --headless --convert-to txt * The above command to batch convert assumes you've installed LibreOffice in /Applications and placed the files to convert in their own directory and have changed to that directory in Terminal. Note: If you want to convert the files to Microsoft Word documents use doc or docx instead of txt for the --convert-to option, e.g.: --convert-to doc.