On 9/7/2020 12:05 AM, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> /bin/grep -Pr '\.dll'
>> /bin/grep: Group: Is a directory
>> /bin/grep: ImagePath: Is a directory
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ImagePath is a expandable string value under the Eventlog
key. 'ls -l' shows ImagePath has having 65 bytes.
> ll ImagePath
-r--r----- 1 65 Sep 6 22:06 ImagePath
Reading the contents, one gets:
>>> read -r x <ImagePath
>>> echo $x
>> C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k LocalServiceNetworkRestricted
>> whose length is ${#x} = 64 (not counting end-of-string)
> You remember that the /proc/registry.../ entries are only the
> keys, subkeys, and kk values names, not the data contained in them.
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Not exactly. Keys are the fs-equivalent of directories,
subkeys are the equivalent of subdirectories, and values are filenames
that usually contain content. Any util that would normally read
file-content (or scan through it, like grep) will read the content in
registry values.
> You are doing the equivalent of:
> $ fgrep -r .dll
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Correct. Which is almost the same as
fgrep -r .dll .
with the difference that results with the "." will have a "./" on
the front of the names, i.e.
>> /bin/fgrep -r .dll .
>> /bin/fgrep: ./Group: Is a directory
>> /bin/fgrep: ./ImagePath: Is a directory
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I'm not sure, but it looks like you may be confusing
the function & output of 'find' and grep? Where find looks only
at the names, whereas 'grep' scans for the text string in the
content of the files. Given the '-r' param, 'grep' will descend
into directories -- not attempt to scan them as text files.
> producing nothing but error messages.
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Normally text files are not classified as directories.
Both 'ls' and 'bash' classify keys as 'directories', while values,
of every sort are classified as files.
linda
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