[ale] Binary Matching

[Geoffrey]

Mister Anonymous wrote:
> I need to do some binary matching across many files and was wanting to
> get some recommendations on how to do it.  I would like to be able to
> grab a section of binary data from one file (approximately 500
> continuous bytes) and check and see if that is included in other
> binary files.  Any recommendations on an easy way to extract the
> initial 500 bytes (assume I would like to do it from some particular
> offset in the file) and then search for that data in the other file?
> 
> I am afraid that perl might be the best way to do this, but I am not
> that much of a perl hacker.  If there is an easy way to do it using
> python or a shell script, that would be preferable.

I'm pretty sure cmp handles binary files.  Are you simply looking for a 
match, or do you want to do something once you find the match?

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Until later, Geoffrey