Re: suggestion for binary search output

[Matthew Woehlke]

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Walt Pawley writes:
> > 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.
>
> You can use -a to force treatment as non-binary.

I read the above as "...and I don't want to use -a" ("unless the file is 
treated as text" to me implies that he knows about -a, but isn't 
satisfied with that solution). Maybe something like "Binary file foo 
matches at offset 67" is what he would like?

Walt?

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