On 10 August 2015 at 04:12, Ansar Mohammed <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > I am writing a bourne shell script, to read a binary file as input and take > action depending on the contents of the file. > > The file is a mixture of ASCII and binary codes (such as ASCII filed lengths > and flags). > > I have the processing already done in C. I would like to convert it to a > bourne shell. > > Does anyone have any suggestions on what combination of tools I may be able > to use?
If you're only trying to look at the ASCII data (and trying to process binary data in Bash seems like a poor idea), then you may want to look at the "strings" command: $ strings $(which ls) "strings" is part of the binutils package on Debian. -- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ [email protected] --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
