Count Occurrences of a Hexadecimal Sequence in a File
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- How to count the number of locations in a file containing a hexadecimal sequence?
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- How to count the number of locations in a file containing a binary pattern?
- How to count the number of times a hexadecimal sequence appears in a file?
- How to count the number of times a binary sequence appears in a file?
- How to count the number of times a hexadecimal pattern appears in a file?
- How to count the number of times a binary pattern appears in a file?
- How to count the number of times a hexadecimal sequence appears in a binary file?
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Count Occurrences of a Hexadecimal Sequence in a File:
od -v -t x1 FILE | sed 's/[^ ]*//' | tr -d '\012' | grep -i -o HEXSTRING | wc -l
- Count the number of occurrences of hexadecimal string HEXSTRING in file FILE.
- N.B. HEXSTRING must have each byte’s hex separated by one space, e.g. "Hello" would be represented by "48 65 6c 6c 6f" or "48 65 6C 6C 6F".
- Pros: Handles both text and binary files. Handles any byte value from 00 to ff. Handles both uppercase and lowercase hexadecimal. Can use regular expression matching instead of a plain hex string.
- Cons: Slow. Some systems don’t have the -o option to grep. Doesn’t handle overlapping hex strings or patterns.
od -v -t x1 FILE | sed 's/[^ ]*//' | tr -d '\012' | grep HEXSTRING | sed 's/HEXSTRING/&\n/g' | grep -c HEXSTRING
- Count the number of occurrences of lowercase hexadecimal string HEXSTRING in file FILE.
- N.B. HEXSTRING must have each byte’s hex separated by one space, e.g. "Hello" would be represented by "48 65 6c 6c 6f".
- Pros: Handles both text and binary files. Handles any byte value from 00 to ff. Can use regular expression matching instead of a plain hex string. Doesn’t rely on the -o option to grep.
- Cons: Very slow. Doesn’t handle overlapping hex strings or patterns.
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Replace Text in a File using the Command Line
Join Lines of Text File Together
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