[ale] Binary Matching

[Mister Anonymous]

How can I feed grep the 200-300 byte long string that I need to extra
from the base binary file?

On 6/6/05, Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> Mister Anonymous wrote:
> > The problem about cmp is that it just does a strait compare.  I need
> > to find out whether a particular binary section has been embedded
> > anywhere in another particular binary.  I will have the offset from
> > the first binary to get the (binary) string that I am going to be
> > searching for, but I will not know where in the second binary that
> > (binary) string will be.
> 
> Disregard my previous brainless post.
> 
> man grep
> 
>   If  the  first  few bytes of a file indicate that the file contains
> binary data, assume that the file is of  type  TYPE.   By default,  TYPE
>   is  binary,  and grep normally outputs either a one-line message
> saying that a binary file matches, or no  message  if  there  is  no  match.
> 
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey
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