Shell Programming and Scripting

i have a binary data that has some text in it.

what i want to do is, i want to grab just piece of information from the binary. but when i run my awk on it, it returns nothing.

Code:

awk -F"MYINFO=" '{print $2}' mybinary

however, when i install gawk, then try again, it works.

i would prefer not to have to install gawk. is there anyway to sift through binary files with awk?

i tried something like this to cause awk to avoid noticing the lines with binary data, but it didnt work:

Code:

awk -F"MYINFO=" '!/������Q3��/ {print $2}' mybinary

any suggestions?

Hi,

Can you run the strings command on the binary first ? That should extract all human-readable text from the binary, which you could then do anything else you wanted to.