[ale] Binary Matching

[Michael Hirsch]

dd if=filename bs=1 count=200 skip=25
will output the 200 bytes starting at byte 26, I believe.  Capture
that output and feed it to grep.

Michael

On 6/6/05, Mister Anonymous <atlantalinuxenthusiast at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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