Your hex editor should color-code bytes

Re:Your hex editor should color-code bytes by Crestwave on Thursday April 23, 2026 @10:47AM (#47876388)

Wouldn't strings(1) have worked for this?

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Re:Your hex editor should color-code bytes by ksherlock on Thursday April 23, 2026 @11:10AM (#47876661)

By default, strings needs a run of 4+ (printable|ascii) characters. This sounds like it was 1 ascii character at a time in a sea of random data (with other alpha chars removed).

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Re:Your hex editor should color-code bytes by Crestwave on Thursday April 23, 2026 @07:23PM (#47883546)

Ah, right. It would have to be `strings -n 1`, then.

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