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Re: Command line edit of binary file
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:32:37 -0700
- Subject: Re: Command line edit of binary file
- References: <42EFBC32.2070007@igc.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
David Vergin wrote:
> sed 's/F:\\/C:\\/g' pugs.exe > pugsfixed.exe
That should work fine, except for the problems of line endings. The
cygwin build system itself uses something along the lines of the
following to modify a binary file.
perl -pe 'BEGIN{binmode(STDIN); binmode(STDOUT);}; s/F:\\/C:\\/g' \
< input > output
Brian
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