Group information:
Q1: How many photos/images are there in the dataset?
There are 288 images in the dataset.
Q2: What does the file command say when it does not recognize a binary file format?
The file commans says a generic data
when it doesn’t recognize a binary file format.
Q3: How many files did the file command not recognize?
There are 926 unrecognized files.
Q4: Write a command line that answers the above question (i.e. a line of text that can be pasted into the kali terminal) .
file *.bin | grep -i ': *data$' | wc -l
Q5: In at most 200 characters, explain briefly how that command line works.
The command counts how many .bin files are classified as generic “data” files. It uses file
to identify file types, filters those ending with “data” using grep
, and counts them with wc -l
.