On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Sergey Dryga <sergey@dryga.us> wrote:

> > Those won't do him any good unless he converts it to ASCII.
> > It's an ASCII string embedded in a binary file that he wants to change.
>
> That's exactly what sed will do.  OP specified that he needs to change
> ASCII
> string.  Might need to maintain the string length, but that's about it.
> command line is:
> sed s/Search String/Subst. String/ filename > newFilename
> I just verified it o a bin file generated by gcc (actually a Hello World =
in
> QT4).
>

Nice one. Or just open it with vim -b and replace strings with shift+R or
:%s/// etc and job done.

I know, I am a vim maniac :-)

Tamas




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