billforsternz on All My Exes Live in Texts

Damn, was hoping this was an article about how to encode Windows executables into text.

Ask and ye shall receive (in powershell form):

    $fName = "last.exe"

    $fContent = get-content $fName

    $fContentBytes = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($fContent)

    $fContentEncoded = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String($fContentBytes)

    $fContentEncoded set-content ($fName + ".text")

Now you can at least say that all your .exes live in base64-encoded .texts.

ygra 13y

I guess that should rather be

    Get-PSDrive -PSProvider Filesystem |
      Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path { $_.Root } -Filter *.exe |
      ForEach-Object {
        $bytes = Get-Content $_ -Encoding Byte -ReadCount 0
        $text = [Convert]::ToBase64String($bytes)
        $text | Set-Content ($_.FullName + '.text')
      }

Reading the files as UTF-8 and converting them back into a byte array isn't such a great idea, I think ;-)

billforsternz 13y

Thanks, upvoted. (But, also, note that I wasn't really hoping this was an article about how to store my Windows .exes as text :-)

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