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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Matthew
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