On Mon, 6 Nov 1995, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sun, 5 Nov 1995, Thomas Kocourek wrote: > > Not only did you send this message to the wrong list, you wrote an overly > complicated script. > > the "cat | tr | tr | tr" sequence can be replaced by the existing utility > "strings". > > e.g. > > strings -a /usr/bin/blahblahblah | grep / | less >
In these situations it is ideal to use the 'strace' program which in addition to telling where the program looks for files gives you more info like in what order. astor

