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Crestwave 43 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Your hex editor should color-code bytes

Wouldn't strings(1) have worked for this?

ksherlock 43 days ago [–]

By default, strings needs a run of 4+ (printable|ascii) characters. This sounds like it was 1 ascii character at a time in a sea of random data (with other alpha chars removed).

Crestwave 43 days ago | [–]

Ah, right. It would have to be `strings -n 1`, then.

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