Re: binary grep

[Nelson Castillo <nelsoneci@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Rob Gom <rgom.debian@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> thanks for your suggestions. I'm afraid grep was designed as text-oriented tool.
> I'm not sure how it will handle CR and/or LF characters when matching
> pattern. IIRC grep has no multiline patterns, so it could basically
> fail.
> I guess it would suit 95% of my needs, I'm just trying to anticipate
> potential caveats.
> What about matching bytes values? Will grep accept syntax like \x55\x3a\xff\x10?

I found this using Google:

http://debugmo.de/?p=100

I wonder if it helps.

Coding a simple binary grep with basic regex support could be a nice
programming exercise :-)

Nelson.-