Re: A bone to pick...

[Craig Sanders <cas@muffin.pronet.com>]

On Sun, 5 Nov 1995, Thomas Kocourek wrote:

> # getdir - a simple directory extraction tool
> 
> cat $1 | tr -cs '[\0[:print:]]' '[\001*]' | tr -d '\001' | \
>   tr '\0' '\n' | grep "/" | more
>
> # end of getdir ================================== enjoy!
> ===============================

(getdir above reformatted by me to fit in 80 columns)

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


Craig

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