Search an entire drive for character string

[Bob Taylor]

On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 22:54 -0700, David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)
wrote:
> fergus at bonhard.uklinux.net wrote:
> 
> >Is there a way (dunno, maybe using dd and grep?) that an entire drive,
> >and not just the files on it, can be scanned for a character string?
> >Fergus
> >
> There is (was?) a hex editor for linux called bev that might do the 
> trick.  The problem with using dd and grep (e.g., dd if=/dev/hda | grep 
> 'string') is the best you will get is that the string you're interested 
> in is somewhere on the disk. 

You may want to have a look at lde on sourceforge. Latest I have is
2.6.1. Sorry, I don't have a URL for you.

Bob
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brtaylor at sanfelipe.com.mx