Another option that *may* work with some documents: the strings command. It will extract any text strings from a file and leave out all the other stuff.
Can some on say how in simplest way to implement the following:
I have two files:
1)
some
some
some
2)
another
another
another
I need to get third file:
3)
some another
some another
some another (1 Reply)
hi,
I have a file called Archiver1.gz
how to view this file without doing gunzip on it i.e. decompressing it
i tried this command but its not working:
gzcat Archiver1.gz | tail -10 (4 Replies)
Hello All
I compressed a file hello by using compress command
compress hello ( enter )
i got the file as hello.z
1. My question is how can i see the file hello.z
2. How can i uncompress it back to change it to filename hello
thanks (4 Replies)
I'm rusty with cp, so I was wondering: is it possible to cp all the .doc files in a folder and make them .txt files? Can you use cp to do that? (3 Replies)
Hello,
I'm looking for some code that will list sequences of files as a single line.
ie, sequences of files like this:
filename.1.ext
filename.2.ext
filename.3.ext
filename.4.ext
filename.5.ext
filename.6.ext
filename.7.ext
filename.8.ext
filename.9.ext
filename.10.ext
would... (6 Replies)
I am currently trying to open a .doc file in my workstation via terminal. This is my code:
root@ojt:/home/ojt/Desktop# cat arts_life.doc
and it gave me a bunch of unknown characters together with the contents of the doc file. What I actually want to happen is that it will open the... (2 Replies)
I am currently trying to open a .doc file in my workstation via terminal. This is my code:
root@ojt:/home/ojt/Desktop# cat arts_life.doc
and it gave me a bunch of unknown characters together with the contents of the doc file. What I actually want to happen is that it will open the... (4 Replies)
I need to be able to find all *.doc files by year last modified and then perform an action such as copy to folder: /documents/2011
the 'find' command seems to show the path but not the full file details, which includes the date modified as the ls command does.
I got this far with ls, but have... (2 Replies)
the titele was wrong ... the true one is: Is it possible to search words inside .pdf or .doc files?
is it possible if i changed the word into binary combination:eek:?
and this way is super too hyper huge of greatest codes i ever seen:D to read only 1 word so is there any other ways:confused:?
... (1 Reply)
Folks,
I would like to know how to merge two .doc files from different servers.
For example,
df -h > host1.doc --> from host1
df -h > host2.doc --> from host2
Now i want to merge these different server details into single .doc file.
Pls let me know, if any questions...
Regards,... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: seenuvasan1985
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LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN
strings
STRINGS(1) General Commands Manual STRINGS(1)NAME
strings - find the printable strings in a object, or other binary, file
SYNOPSIS
strings [ - ] [ -a ] [ -o ] [ -number ] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
Strings looks for ASCII strings in a binary file or standard input. Strings is useful for identifying random object files and many other
things. A string is any sequence of 4 (the default) or more printing characters ending with a newline or a null. Unless the - flag is
given, strings looks in all sections of the object files except the (__TEXT,__text) section. If no files are specified standard input is
read.
The options to strings(1) are:
-a This option causes strings to look for strings in all sections of the object file (including the (__TEXT,__text) section.
- This option causes strings to look for strings in all bytes of the files (the default for non-object files).
-o Preceded each string by its offset in the file (in decimal).
-number
The decimal number is used as the minimum string length rather than the default of 4.
SEE ALSO od(1)BUGS
The algorithm for identifying strings is extremely primitive.
Apple Computer, Inc. October 23, 1997 STRINGS(1)