Using grep to search for hex strings in a file

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This seems to work for me:

LANG=C grep --only-matching --byte-offset --binary --text --perl-regexp "<\x-hex pattern>" <file>

short form:

LANG=C grep -obUaP "<\x-hex pattern>" <file>

Example:

LANG=C grep -obUaP "\x01\x02" /bin/grep

Output (cygwin binary):

153: <\x01\x02>
33210: <\x01\x02>
53453: <\x01\x02>

So you can grep this again to extract offsets. But don’t forget to use binary mode again.

Note: LANG=C is needed to avoid utf8 encoding issues.

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