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Top Forums Programming C program to read a binary file and search for a string? Post 302902052 by achenle on Saturday 17th of May 2014 08:58:07 PM
Old 05-17-2014
Better to use something like this:
Code:
head -c 32m | grep $STRING

That addresses the problem of strings searching the entirety of large files when only the first few MB are to be searched. (The example will search the first 32 MB.)
 

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