Re: [tlug] binary search of binary data

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Edward" == Edward Wright <edw@example.com> writes:

    Edward> Comment: there oughta be a "binary" grep.

There is: grep -ab.  Why it didn't do what you want, I don't know;
maybe it's a bug in grep.

Anything more complicated than that requires knowledge of the data's
structure (your perl program already assumes a block structure!).


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