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Re: Run-Only script in OSX 10.2.6
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Re: Run-Only script in OSX 10.2.6


  • Subject: Re: Run-Only script in OSX 10.2.6
  • From: Andrew Oliver <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 10:41:29 -0700

On 5/16/03 9:54 AM, "Stephen Swift" <email@hidden> wrote:

> At 5/16/03 12:25 PM, Michael P. Wilson (email@hidden) Wrote:
>
>> Run the command-line utility "strings" from the terminal with the
>> filename of your run-only script as an argument from "terminal" and
>> it'll dump all the normal plain text strings it can find. It's likely
>> to be very enlightening.
>
> Odd. I must have done something wrong. Nothing happened. How are you
> suppose to do it again?
>
> "Strings script" ??

'strings' is a unix utility for extracting strings (or string-like) blocks
from any file. It uses various pattern matching rules to determine what
might be a string and as Michael says, it can be enlightening (or
frightening, depending on your point of view).

Typically the output will include some junk as mismatched strings, and some
of it won't make any sense but there's often some useful data, too.

To use it, open a terminal window and type:

strings /path/to/file

The file can be any file, including binary or application files, e.g.

strings /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder

Andrew
:)
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