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by Crestwave 49 days ago
Wouldn't strings(1) have worked for this?
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ksherlock 49 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).
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Crestwave 49 days ago
Ah, right. It would have to be `strings -n 1`, then.
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