[ILUG] [OT puzzle] Grep regex Answers

[Declan Moriarty]

On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 13:37 +0100, Proinnsias Breathnach wrote:

> *ah* ... If we'd known the lines started with "Visited: " we could 
> have made the job much easier ...

I did say that... I think, giving these lines as examples. 

0D F0 AD 0B  0D F0 AD 0B   0D F0 AD 0B  0D F0 AD 0B   with odd text
characters, then
Visited:administrator at http://rad.msn.com/ADSAdClient31.dll?GetAd?
PG=IMSIRD?SC=HF

Anyhow it appears to be the way to do this, as some programs seem to use
IE as eye candy while setting up. That leads to some very funny url
protocols indeed.

> strings index.dat | grep ^Visited | sed -e 's@\(/.*\) .*$@\1@' | less

The sed isn't cutting off anything, sadly.  That's the thing about posix
regexes - ymmv. There was a research department motto in the last the
biggest lab I worked in

"If at first you don't succeed - Give up!" (To be said with tongue in
cheek). The 'crud' appears to be php, java or something tacked without a
space onto the url, as in 

Visited: administrator at http://t.msn.com/en-ie/default.aspx?
ver=7.0.0777&did=1&t=7MG0XqkiQB*DQ4BRIgU!wZLJWb!jhSW!lbssD52WRyoW
v2Mg3GOMewEBJYKV4UzNq4xkED3*YTN01GAhg3HNAMDPVnw7dlgL30pAog0Y1aqnlE2pXe2ZCrlWNOoyby!Iez&p=7b05ezVgIDCv6A!8v*GQBs6gRz0SnwG7CYc
NW!eGSxrl3l!
JkeKIxGkXL*LU2KIACRcdkjpOkkxDec1qTNUhiRToEZfnFvYBasLe1eVbtVnK7OSJbNKpQNqgZMNi0UkOyMM9aa7rFMZUY4lp05RJUuc6WRbZN0d
35hAmHca9UOzx0bVeFMbXBo4PVXzKCc5Pqm

Compared with what I was doing, this is neat and manageable. It stops
you having to battle with m$ software which thinks you oughtn't to be
allowed look at those files anyhow. So they have magic in the
desktop.ini file to show a middle finger at directory listing commands.
Thank you again.


-- 
        With Best Regards,

        Declan Moriarty.