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suggestion for binary search output
From: |
Walt Pawley |
Subject: |
suggestion for binary search output |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:36:18 -0800 |
I've had several occasions to want to extract the byte-offset
of a text string in a binary file. The various versions of grep
I've used won't provide that unless the file is treated as text
- printing a line indicating that the string is present.
Perhaps it would make sense to check for the -b (--byte-offset)
flag being present before that single line of output and
including the byte offset of the found string as part of the
message if the flag is set.
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Walter M. Pawley <address@hidden>
Wump Research & Company
676 River Bend Road, Roseburg, OR 97470
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