[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'

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey



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