On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 01:04:02PM +0100, Declan Moriarty wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 12:22 +0100, Proinnsias Breathnach wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:58:49AM +0100, Declan Moriarty wrote:
> > > So I'm looking for the question marks in
> > >
> > > grep -o --binary-files=text -E '?????' index.dat |less
> > >
> > > and it is possible that the user (administrator here) could vary.
> > > --
> >
> > strings index.dat | grep http | less ?
> >
> > Maybe, just maybe ?
>> No, I was trying to avoid that. The lines can be 100s or characters
> long, and all the hex screws up the font on the terminal. Doing this
> with a visitor linux OS is worse, because the consoles are more
> sensitive to being mucked up than on an installed linux IME.
> --
That's the point of "strings" - a command that pulls the ASCII
intelligible strings from the file - and ignores non-printing characters
/ sequences. - follow with grep, and things should work reasonably well.
P
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