05-17-2014
C program to read a binary file and search for a string?
Hi,
I am not a C programmer. The only C exposure I have is reading and completing the exercises from the C (ANSI C ) Programming Language book
At the moment, I am using the UNIX strings command to extract information for a binary file and grepping for a particular string and the value after it.
While this is quite quick on a 50M file, it takes a while for a 500M file.
Can someone please advise where I can find some examples of reading a binary file that can search for a particular string and then exits when it finds it or maybe one that reads the first few bytes of a binary file where I assume the contents of the information is.
When running strings | grep, I assume it is running the strings on the whole 500M file and then doing a grep. I am hoping to be able to use a C program that will read only the first x bytes or read the binary file and exits once it found the information that it is looking for.
Any guidance much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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