On 10 August 2015 at 04:12, Ansar Mohammed <ansarm@gmail.com> 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/ gilesorr@gmail.com