[GTALUG] Processing a binary file with a shell script

[Mauro Souza]

If you have the program in C to process data, going to bash is like
swapping a large truck for a turtle. Bash will be orders of magnitude
slower, and you will have to take a lot of care to pipe data all over awk,
sed, tr and the like.
Bash is a terrible choice, python (or perl, or PHP) would be faster. Way
faster.

Mauro
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2015-08-10 11:42 GMT-03:00 Brent Kimberley <Brent.Kimberley at durham.ca>:

> How about ihex or srec?
>
>
>   Original Message
> From: Giles Orr
> Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 10:32
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> Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Processing a binary file with a shell script
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>
> On 10 August 2015 at 04:12, Ansar Mohammed <ansarm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > I am writing a bourne shell script, to read a binary file as input and
> take
> > action depending on the contents of the file.
> >
> > The file is a mixture of ASCII and binary codes (such as ASCII filed
> lengths
> > and flags).
> >
> > I have the processing already done in C. I would like to convert it to a
> > bourne shell.
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions on what combination of tools I may be
> able
> > to use?
>
> If you're only trying to look at the ASCII data (and trying to process
> binary data in Bash seems like a poor idea), then you may want to look
> at the "strings" command:
>
> $ strings $(which ls)
>
> "strings" is part of the binutils package on Debian.
>
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