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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Binary search and replace Post 302903431 by wisecracker on Tuesday 27th of May 2014 03:47:44 PM
Old 05-27-2014
Firstly, give us a clue as to your OS, shell, terminal, etc...

Secondly this is not a binary file.
They are ASCII representations of hexadecimal pairs separated by space delimiters.

Thirdly how large will your (pseudo)-binary be?

Fourthly will there always be two "00" pairs?

Lastly in number 2 do you want three "FF" pair values or two as shown in your results?

Whichever the case then this might be of help as a starter:-

Another Building Block, Binary File Manipulation...
 

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purple-url-handler(1)						   User Commands					     purple-url-handler(1)

NAME
purple-url-handler - Python script to handle URL with purple SYNOPSIS
purple-url-handler [-URL] DESCRIPTION
Python script to handle URL with purple. OPTIONS
Usage: purple-url-handler URL Example: purple-url-handler "xmpp:romeo@montague.net?message" ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-im-client | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
purple-remote(1), purple-send(1), purple-send-async(1), attributes(5) purple-url-handler Manual, http://pidgin.im/ NOTES
Updated by Lei Ju, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006, 2007. SunOS 5.11 02 Apr 2008 purple-url-handler(1)
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