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Bill Cunningham...
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:09 pm
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I never thought I would fully know how to use dd but I guess I'm not
able too. I want to skip over the first 252 bytes of an object file to get
to the first section header which is 40 bytes long. I've tried
bs,ibs,obs,skip I keep creating an empty file. How can I get this
information by using dd ?

Bill
 
Vincent Zweije...
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 5:30 am
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In article <49dc076b$0$5502$bbae4d71 at (no spam) news.suddenlink.net>, Bill Cunningham
<nospam at (no spam) nspam.invalid> wrote:

|| I never thought I would fully know how to use dd but I guess I'm not
|| able too. I want to skip over the first 252 bytes of an object file to get
|| to the first section header which is 40 bytes long. I've tried
|| bs,ibs,obs,skip I keep creating an empty file. How can I get this
|| information by using dd ?

dd bs=1 skip=252 count=40
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