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From: |
BryanS |
Subject: |
grep |
Date: |
Fri, 11 May 2001 16:01:42 -0400 |
Hello. My name is Bryan Sillman, from the company "Standard Internet"
I saw your e-mail address in the man pages (we have it installed on a Linux
box) and wanted to drop you a line about a problem I have.
I trying to use grep to find the exact byte position of a string in a file.
On a shell, I have a file called TEST. In TEST, I have one line:
ABCDE
And I tried to execute the command
grep -b D TEST
Which translate to:
Grep command, Byte Offset Switch, Data Searched and File
When I run it, it returns:
address@hidden bid]# grep -b D TEST
0:ABCDE
Shouldn't this return the number "4", because "D" is the fourth byte in the
file?
Sincerely,
Bryan Sillman