[ale] Binary Grep
Geoffrey
esoteric at 3times25.net
Tue Nov 16 19:05:23 EST 2004
Greg Freemyer wrote:
> Does anyone know of a grep like tool that works for binary files?
>
> In particular, I have a binary file I want to find all occurrances of
> 16 hex FF chars in a row.
>
> ie. 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF,
> 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF
>
> It would be great if it also provided some surrounding detail, but at
> a minimum I need the offset in the file.
>
> Thanks
> Greg
You might be able to use 'vi -b'
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Until later, Geoffrey
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