David Vergin wrote: > I want to write a script to do a minor edit of a binary file. I don't > use sed, but as best I can say, what I need would be the equivalent of: >> sed 's/F:\\/C:\\/g' pugs.exe > pugsfixed.exe >> But sed (in my unfamiliar hands) seems to mung the binary (beyond what I > have asked for). I assume this is because it is expecting a text file. >> I could write a Perl script to do this. But this task screams "Prior > Art!" so this seems like a good opportunity to add another unixy tool to > my personal toolkit. >> Is there a tool available under cygwin to do a command line edit of a > binary file? (hexedit works fine for an interactive solution but I want > to automate this.) bsdiff / bspatch? Original source: http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/ Cygwin versions still online: $ cat get.sh #!/bin/sh wget http://www.lapo.it/cygwin/bsdiff-4.2-1-src.tar.bz2 wget http://www.lapo.it/cygwin/bsdiff-4.2-1.tar.bz2 MinGW version: http://www.pokorra.de/coding/bsdiff.html VC++ Version: http://sites.inka.de/tesla/f_others.html#bsdiff Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/