binary sed replacement
- by Ryan
Hello,
I was attempting to do a sed replacement in a binary file however I am beginning to believe that is not possible. Essentially what I wanted to do was similar to the following:
sed -bi "s/\(\xFF\xD8[[:xdigit:]]\{1,\}\xFF\xD9\)/\1/" file.jpg
Or more notably... scan through a binary file until the hex code FFD8, continue reading until…