Hi, Possibly using "strings file_name >new_file_name" command could resolve this problem. Thank you. Alex
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Omer Zak <w...@zak.co.il> wrote: > Instead of creating a separate bgrep, it would have been better to be > able to extend the syntax of regular expressions (in egrep, Perl and > other platforms) to allow specification of binary strings having > arbitrary length by means of an hex string. > > This would come instead of making it very cumbersome to specify strings > longer than one character (\xnn or \unnnn or equivalent - see also: > http://www.regular-expressions.info/unicode.html). > > And if we are at it, it would have been nice to add to all R.E. engines > hooks to allow private extensions of R.E. syntax, in order to allow > people to concisely express special parsing requirements. > > --- Omer > > > On Mon, 2015-07-20 at 21:24 +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > On 20/07/15 11:56, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > > > > > I often have damaged text files (due to a lovely storage system). > > > The files are of different formats, although I can usually assume > > > they contain spaces. The files are structured as lines. > > > > > > > > > Every once in a while, the lovely destruction (ahm....storage) > > > system inserts binary garbage to the file. I wish to fix the files > > > by removing the cancer without leaving any leftovers. That is, I > > > want to lose partial lines. > > > > > > > > > I tried using grep with all sorts of keys, but it did not do the > > > trick. > > > strings catches too little - it leaves partial lines. > > > Is there an elegant way to do the trick line-wise? > > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > Orna > > > > > http://debugmo.de/2009/04/bgrep-a-binary-grep/ > -- > What happens if one mixes together evolution with time travel to the > past? See: http://www.zak.co.il/a/stuff/opinions/eng/evol_tm.html > My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ > > My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. > They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which > I may be affiliated in any way. > WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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