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Re: scanning HD data

From Andreas Kohlbach <apr15.7.ankman@spamgourmet.net>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: scanning HD data
Date 2015-04-14 16:15 -0400
Organization albasani.net
Message-ID <87618yeab2.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> (permalink)
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Bill Cunningham wrote on 14. April 2015:
>
>     If I had a dump of a file. And then wanted to find it on the filesystem, 
> could I use sed? I've never used this command and I am not familiar with it. 
> Other than I know it exists. It is a "stream editor" whatever that is. If I 
> had a dump of XX1. It's 500 MB long. Can I use sed and pipe to find it on 
> the filesystem? I am running ext3 right now.

Try

file -s

At least that works on hard disk nodes.

You could also try to "loop" mount the file. Something like

mount -o loop file /media/somwhere
-- 
Andreas

I use a Unix based operating system, which means I get laid almost as often as I
have to reboot my computer.

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scanning HD data "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-14 16:00 -0400
  Re: scanning HD data Vilmos Soti <vilmos@soti.ca> - 2015-04-14 13:14 -0700
    Re: scanning HD data "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-14 16:18 -0400
  Re: scanning HD data Andreas Kohlbach <apr15.7.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2015-04-14 16:15 -0400
  Re: scanning HD data Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2015-04-14 20:17 +0000
    Re: scanning HD data "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-14 16:23 -0400
      Re: scanning HD data root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2015-04-14 22:00 +0000
      Re: scanning HD data Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2015-04-14 23:20 +0000
        Re: scanning HD data "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-14 19:59 -0400
          Re: scanning HD data Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2015-04-15 00:43 +0000
            Re: scanning HD data "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-14 21:09 -0400
            Re: scanning HD data "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-15 14:35 -0400
      Re: scanning HD data Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2015-04-15 17:09 +0000
        Re: scanning HD data The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-15 18:26 +0100
        Re: scanning HD data "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-15 14:27 -0400
  Re: scanning HD data Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> - 2015-04-14 18:42 -0400
    Re: scanning HD data "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-14 19:28 -0400
  Re: scanning HD data James Moe <jimoeDESPAM@sohnen-moe.com> - 2015-04-15 11:24 -0700

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