Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> I am looking for a way to convert binary data to a format that 'printf'
> will understand (and more importantly, from which '<something> | sed
> 's/\\/\\\\/g' | xargs printf' will produce the same output as the
> input). Am I missing such a utility, or might this be an opportunity for
> me to write 'unprintf' for coreutils? ('od -An -c' gets close, but still
> needs some complex parsing if it is to round-trip.)
Take a look at makeself.
http://www.megastep.org/makeself/
> The objective is to be able to reproduce a binary file from an 'editor
> friendly' shell script. I know base64 could do this, except that base64
> is not portable (even to pre-6.x GNU coreutils), whereas printf is IIRC
> required by POSIX.
That could be a very large file.
If you are just looking for ideas then I found codegroup interesting.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/codegroup/
Bob
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