Dwayne Reid <dwayner <at> planet.eon.net> writes:

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> Good day to all.
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> I need to modify several hundred occurrences of a particular string=20
> in a binary data file.  These particular strings are ASCII, although=20
> the file is in a binary format.  Same number of characters in the=20
> string, fortunately.
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> My former favorite tool (HexEdit) is DOS-based and I haven't even=20
> tried it on a modern OS.  So - I'm looking for recommendations for a=20
> simple tool that can do a simple search-and-replace operation without=20
> corrupting the binary (non-ASCII) bits within the file.
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> Many thanks!
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> dwayne
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Several tools come to mind: sed - for command line editing; or a perl scrip=
t to
make substitutions. number of hex editor under linux as well, though I do n=
ot
use any (no need).=20

Sergey Dryga
http://beaglerobotics.com





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