Re: [Vol-dev] Re: Patch: strings command optimization
8 Sep
2009
8 Sep
'09
8:22 p.m.
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 17:37, Jesse Kornblum<research(a)jessekornblum.com> wrote:
Sadly the sed scripts posted to the list do not work
on the output of the OS
X strings program. This version of strings includes leading zeros in the
offset value. Thus, an output line from OS X strings like
0 %PDF-1.2
gets converted to
: 0 %PDF-1.2
instead of the desired
0:%PDF-1.2
Try this one on for size (tested against strings(1) in OSX 10.5.8):
sed 's/ *\([0-9]\{1,\}\) */\1:/'
Replaces the first instance of "[optional spaces]<1 or more
numbers>[optional spaces]" with "<found number>:". Should be a
little
cleaner and quicker than firing up Perl, and if you'll notice it's
essentially the same regex you're running, if modified for sed
semantics.