Do binary files contain more 1s or 0s?

Re:Do binary files contain more 1s or 0s? by uwydr on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @03:35PM (#21517861)

There's a Linux application called "ent" that calculates the entropy of a file. I use it to see if it's worth it to compress a file before I ship it somewhere else.

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Re:Do binary files contain more 1s or 0s? by gigama on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @05:19PM (#21518809)

Elegant solution, learned something new today, thanks for posting.

$ ent -bc <filename>

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