dd question

[fred smith]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 01:57:49PM -0500, William Stock wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 22:41 -0500, fred smith wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 03:11:25AM +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
> > > I have a binary file with data. Each block of 48 bytes is a record. I 
> 
> > >cut
> 
> > however this is a text file with newlines,... if it has no newlines
> > your mileage may vary. in that case you could try some sed or awk
> > hacks to insert newlines after each 48 bytes then feed it to cut.
> 
> Of course if the *binary* file has a 0x0a in it somewhere you'd be in
> deep doodoo. You can't ASS-U-ME anything.  Been there, been bit.

yeah. a short & sweet C program would be almost trivial, too.
(an exercise for the reader! :))

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