#[Failed Compression](https://ctftime.org/task/2258)
This one was a pain in the *ss. I opened the file (compressed.zip, 73mb) and found a lot of JPEG JFIF broken headers, and also PNG IHDR ones.
I was REALLY bored to code something nice to extract all the files, so I thought I could use some luck this time. Then I focused on the JPEG files.
Before you continue, I'd like you to know that I'm not proud of the following lines ;)
##1. Convert the file to hex`xxd -p compressed.zip | tr -d "\n" > hex`
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##2. Make an ugly loop to isolate the JPEG markers within spaces using an uglier sed.
`j=0; for i in $(cat hex | sed 's/e000104a/ STARTHERE/g;s/ae4260/ENDHERE /g'); do  echo $i > $j.j;  let j++;  done;`
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##3. Loop all the files, now fixing the headers and footers, then converting back from hex to file.
`for i in *.j ; do  sed -i 's/STARTHERE/ffd8ffe000104a/g;s/ENDHERE/ae4260/g' $i; xxd -r -p $i > ${i}pg ; done;`
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##4. For easy browsing, let's make a HTML file with all the valid JPEG files`for i in $(file *.jpg| grep JPEG | cut -f1 -d:); do echo "" >> index.html; done`
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As I said, we needed luck. The flag was in one of the jpeg files :)Take a look at 264.jpg
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