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
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