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Date:      Sat, 13 Jul 2002 21:16:28 +0100
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to find offset of a string in a binary file ?
Message-ID:  <20020713201628.GA88506@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <20020713125320.A67829@iguana.icir.org>
References:  <20020713125320.A67829@iguana.icir.org>

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On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 12:53:21PM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> So, does anyone know how to use the basic unix tools to find
> the offset of a string in a binary file ?
> Specifically, I would like to locate the offset of the string
> 
> 	"MFS Filesystem goes here"

Would grep -b do what you want?

	David.

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