Re: printing the associated filenames found by 'strings'

From: Chuck Dillon (spam_at_nimblegen.com)
Date: 03/30/05

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    Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:55:44 -0600

    subPlanck@excite.com wrote:
    > I'm trying to find a certain text string in a large number of binary
    > files. The 'strings' utility finds the files, the offset and the string
    > I'm searching for, but it doesn't print the associated filenames, like
    > grep does. How do I modify the expression below to show them?
    >
    > find / -name "*.dll" -exec string -a -x {} ; | grep 'foo bar'
    >
    > z.entropic
    >

    Something along the lines of...

    find ~ -name "*.dll" | xargs -i# echo "strings -a -tx '#' | \
    grep whatever | sed 's,^,#,'" | sh

    -- ced 

    -- 
Chuck Dillon
Senior Software Engineer
NimbleGen Systems Inc.
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