Low level Disk Search

[GaryT]

Many thanks, Karl.
Much appreciated
gt


On 07/07/13 23:26, Karl Auer wrote:
> 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.
>