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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Grep on a binary file Post 302454070 by canduc17 on Friday 17th of September 2010 06:15:03 AM
Old 09-17-2010
Grep on a binary file

Hi everyone.

I have a binary file in wich there is a date with format DDMMMYY, for example 02May09.

I can see it opening this file with vim: inside a binary mess, I can clearly read that string.

Now: do you know a way to extract this string from the file?
I woul like to do something like
Code:
grep "Jan | Feb | ... | Dec" binaryFile

Thanks in advance.
 

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gmdate - Format a GMT/UTC date/time

SYNOPSIS
string gmdate (string $format, [int $timestamp = time()]) DESCRIPTION
Identical to the date(3) function except that the time returned is Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). PARAMETERS
o $format - The format of the outputted date string. See the formatting options for the date(3) function. o $timestamp - The optional $timestamp parameter is an integer Unix timestamp that defaults to the current local time if a $timestamp is not given. In other words, it defaults to the value of time(3). RETURN VALUES
Returns a formatted date string. If a non-numeric value is used for $timestamp, FALSE is returned and an E_WARNING level error is emitted. CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ | 5.1.0 | | | | | | | The valid range of a timestamp is typically from | | | Fri, 13 Dec 1901 20:45:54 GMT to Tue, 19 Jan 2038 | | | 03:14:07 GMT. (These are the dates that corre- | | | spond to the minimum and maximum values for a | | | 32-bit signed integer). However, before PHP 5.1.0 | | | this range was limited from 01-01-1970 to | | | 19-01-2038 on some systems (e.g. Windows). | | | | | 5.1.1 | | | | | | | There are useful constants of standard date/time | | | formats that can be used to specify the $format | | | parameter. | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ EXAMPLES
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date(3), mktime(3), gmmktime(3), strftime(3). PHP Documentation Group GMDATE(3)
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