Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:23:40 -0700 (PDT) From: "Duane H. Hesser" <dhh@androcles.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to find offset of a string in a binary file ? Message-ID: <200207132223.g6DMNe892090@androcles.com> In-Reply-To: <20020713132144.A68304@iguana.icir.org>
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On 13-Jul-02 Lui gi Rizzo wrote: > On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 09:16:28PM +0100, David Malone wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 12:53:21PM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >> > So, does anyone know how to use the basic unix tools to find >> > the offset of a string in a binary file ? >> > Specifically, I would like to locate the offset of the string >> > >> > "MFS Filesystem goes here" >> >> Would grep -b do what you want? > > no, as i said in my email, it returns the offset of the "line", > so after it finds the string it goes back to the first newline > and returns the offset of the character after that. :( > > cheers > luigi > strings -at [odx] 'file' | grep whatever -------------- Duane H. Hesser dhh@androcles.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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