NAME
gbsed - Search/replace in binary files.
VERSION
This document describes gbsed version 1.0.
SYNOPSIS
gbsed [-m <min>|-M <max>|-x|-X] [-s|-S] <search for> infile
gbsed [-m <min>|-M <max>|-x|-X] [-s|-S] <search for> [-r|-R] <replace with> infile outfile
gbsed -D <text>
gbsed [--help|--versionDESCRIPTION
gbsed lets you search and replace binary strings and text strings in binary files.\nIf no replace string is given, it will only print out the number of matches found in the file.
you can search by using hex values in text strings, you can also use wildcard matches (??), which will match any wide byte.
Wildcards can not be used with the text search.
Standard in/out will be used if the input/output file name argument is -.
These are all valid search strings:
--search "0xffc300193ab2f63a"
--search "0xff??00??3ab2f??a"
--search "FF??00??3AB2F??A"while these are not:
--search "the quick brown fox" # must use --searchstr option for text
--search "0xff?c33ab3?accc" # no nybbles only wide bytes. (?? not ?).OPTIONS
--search, -s
A string of hex values to search for.
-r, --replace
A string of hex values to replace with.
-S, --searchstr
Search for string instead of hex.
-R, --replacestr
Replace with a string.
-m, --min
Need atleast these many matches.
-M, --max
Stop at a number of matches.
-D, --dump
Dump hex representation of a text string (shows what is done to a -S or -R argument).
-x, --silent
Suppress warnings.
-X, --very-silent
Suppress all output.
-v, --version
Print version information and exit.
-h, --help
This help screen.
EXAMPLES
gbsed --search 0xffc3 /bin/ls
gbsed --search 0xffc3 --replace 0x00ea /bin/ls ./ls.patched
gbsed --search --min 3 --max 12000 0xff /bin/ls
gbsed --searchstr HELLO /bin/ls
cat /bin/ls | gbsed -x -S connected -R corrupted - - | od -cx
gbsed -D "hello world"CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT
libgbsed requires no configuration file or environment variables.
INCOMPATIBILITIES
None known.
BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
No bugs have been reported.
Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-file-bsed@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
Ask Solem, ask@0x61736b.net.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Dave Dykstra dwdbsed@drdykstra.us. for bsed the original program,
0xfeedface for the wildcards patch.
LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2007 Ask Solem <ask@0x61736b.net>
gbsed is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
gbsed is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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