Low level Disk Search

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 22:58 +1000, GaryT wrote:
> Does anyone know of a program that will search a Linux disk at low 
> level, seeking out character strings etc.

The "strings" command does exactly this.

> This is NOT the find program. I'm looking for a little routine that 
> reads straight off the disk, disregards file boundaries, can't be 
> bothered about the function of the file it's looking in, etc. This 
> routine will start at Sector 0 and just read characters, looking for a 
> particular string match.

strings will do it on anything. Run the output from dd through strings
and it will do what you want.

   man strings
   man dd

Regards, K.

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