Re: A bone to pick...

[Alexander S A Kjeldaas <astor@stud.unit.no>]

On Mon, 6 Nov 1995, Craig Sanders wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Nov 1995, Thomas Kocourek wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

In these situations it is ideal to use the 'strace' program which in 
addition to telling where the program looks for files gives you more info 
like in what order. 

astor