bin/72355: Can't run "strings" on a (disk) device, even if you
want to
Ryan Sommers
ryans at gamersimpact.com
Thu Oct 7 21:30:48 PDT 2004
The following reply was made to PR bin/72355; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Ryan Sommers <ryans at gamersimpact.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, beyssac at bofh.enst.fr
Cc:
Subject: Re: bin/72355: Can't run "strings" on a (disk) device, even if you
want to
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 23:28:56 -0500
According to POSIX: "The /strings/ utility shall look for printable
strings in regular files and shall write those strings to standard output."
From the looks of it strings isn't supposed to work on devices. Depends
on how literally you take "regular files" to mean.
--
Ryan Sommers
ryans at gamersimpact.com
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