On 13-Jul-02 Lui gi Rizzo wrote: > 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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