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Ghidra Automation with ghidra-open

2024-07-15

GhidraAutomationJava

The Problem

Every time you open a binary in Ghidra, you:
1. Create a new project
2. Import the binary
3. Wait for auto-analysis
4. Open the GUI

This gets tedious when analyzing many binaries.

## The Solution

ghidra-open does it all in one command:

``bash
ghidra-open ./target_binary
`

This automatically:
- Creates a Ghidra project
- Imports the binary
- Runs headless analysis
- Launches the GUI when ready

## Implementation

Uses Ghidra's headless analyzer API:
-
analyzeHeadless` for background processing
- Ghidra scripts for custom analysis
- Shell wrapper for CLI integration

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