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authorRichard Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2009-05-08 14:28:03 +0100
committerRichard Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2009-05-08 14:28:03 +0100
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@@ -591,6 +591,17 @@ This returns the verbose messages flag.
This command installs GRUB (the Grand Unified Bootloader) on
C<device>, with the root directory being C<root>.
+=head2 hexdump
+
+ hexdump path
+
+This runs C<hexdump -C> on the given C<path>. The result is
+the human-readable, canonical hex dump of the file.
+
+Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit
+of somewhere between 2MB and 4MB. To transfer large files you should use
+FTP.
+
=head2 is-busy
is-busy
@@ -1043,6 +1054,35 @@ C<path> should be a file or directory in the mounted file system
This is the same as the C<statvfs(2)> system call.
+=head2 strings
+
+ strings path
+
+This runs the L<strings(1)> command on a file and returns
+the list of printable strings found.
+
+Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit
+of somewhere between 2MB and 4MB. To transfer large files you should use
+FTP.
+
+=head2 strings-e
+
+ strings-e encoding path
+
+This is like the C<strings> command, but allows you to
+specify the encoding.
+
+See the L<strings(1)> manpage for the full list of encodings.
+
+Commonly useful encodings are C<l> (lower case L) which will
+show strings inside Windows/x86 files.
+
+The returned strings are transcoded to UTF-8.
+
+Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit
+of somewhere between 2MB and 4MB. To transfer large files you should use
+FTP.
+
=head2 sync
sync
@@ -1193,6 +1233,11 @@ As a special case, if C<size> is C<0>
then the length is calculated using C<strlen> (so in this case
the content cannot contain embedded ASCII NULs).
+I<NB.> Owing to a bug, writing content containing ASCII NUL
+characters does I<not> work, even if the length is specified.
+We hope to resolve this bug in a future version. In the meantime
+use C<upload>.
+
Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit
of somewhere between 2MB and 4MB. To transfer large files you should use
FTP.