[X-Unix] How does one find a string in a binary file, etc.?

[William H. Magill]

On Sep 2, 2008, at 4:46 PM, David Ledger wrote:

> At 12:53 -0700 2/9/08, Kevin Stevens wrote:
>> On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, David Ledger wrote:
>>
>>> At 09:06 -0700 2/9/08, Aaron wrote:
>>>>> Try "man strings".
>>>> That gets a negative result. "man string" turns up a bunch of C  
>>>> functions. "apropos string" turns up lots and lots of C functions  
>>>> and a few other useless items. Am I missing something?
>>>
>>> My Leopard is also missing a man page for 'strings'. For other  
>>> versions of strings
>>
>> Hmm, my 10.5.4 box has the man page, dated 2006.  It was an upgrade  
>> from 10.4, I wonder if I inherited it from there, or maybe from the  
>> developer toolkit?
>>
>> KeS
>
> Odd. My Leopard mini, that was installed with a fresh install when  
> nearly new, has it, but my Panther-Tiger-Leopard Updated 17"PB  
> doesn't. Both have the Dev Toolkit installed.
> Oh-well..

As I recall, there was some issue with man pages when you upgraded  
from Tiger to Leopard, in particular.

I don't recall the details, but I know that my 10.5.4 system, which I  
recently did an archive/install followed about a week later by a bare- 
metal  recovery from Time Machine (both because of a disk problem)  
does have the man page for strings.  It also had "different" icons  
show up for some system apps after the Time Machine reload.

The reload went without a problem. Booted from the Install DVD and  
then reloaded from its menu. Quite a pleasant operation compared with  
the number of bare-metal installs/reloads I've done in 30 years as a  
Unix sys-admin using all kinds of "professional" backup software like  
Veritas and others.


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