Command line edit of binary file

[Brian Dessent]

David Vergin wrote:

>      sed 's/F:\\/C:\\/g' pugs.exe > pugsfixed.exe

That should work fine, except for the problems of line endings.  The
cygwin build system itself uses something along the lines of the
following to modify a binary file.

perl -pe 'BEGIN{binmode(STDIN); binmode(STDOUT);}; s/F:\\/C:\\/g' \
                 < input > output

Brian

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