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Comment by Crestwave

1 day ago

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

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Crestwave

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ksherlock  1 day 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  15 hours ago

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

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