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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
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Duane H. Hesser
dhh@androcles.com

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