in reply to Re: How do I read .pag files
in thread How do I read .pag files

file FILENAME is giving 'data' as an output

hexdump -C FILENAME | head gave no result

"file" would say "empty" if the file was empty, so hexdump must have generated output. What does the output of hexdump look like?

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Re^3: How do I read .pag files
by sachinz2 (Acolyte) on Apr 12, 2017 at 11:35 UTC 
    $file filename.state.pag
filename.state.pag: data

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    $hexdump -C filename.state.pag
hexdump: filename.state.pag: No such file or directory
hexdump: filename.state.pag: Bad file descriptor

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      is there a filename.state.dir file too? if so based on the link from marto this may work; 

       use strict;; use warnings; 
 use Fcntl;   # For O_RDWR, O_CREAT, etc.
 use SDBM_File;

 my $filename='filename.state';
 my %hash; 
 tie(%hash, 'SDBM_File', $filename, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0666)
   or die "Couldn't tie SDBM file 'filename': $!; aborting";


 use Data::Dumper; 
 print Dumper(\%hash);

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      I would make a copy of the two files first, then run off of the copies, just to make sure.

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        Thanks Monks

        I had come to exact same solution as @huck

        But thanks anyways

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