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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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@@ -743,6 +743,11 @@ class GuestFS:
calculated using "strlen" (so in this case the content
cannot contain embedded ASCII NULs).
+ *NB.* Owing to a bug, writing content containing ASCII
+ NUL characters does *not* work, even if the length is
+ specified. We hope to resolve this bug in a future
+ version. In the meantime use "g.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.
@@ -1251,3 +1256,45 @@ class GuestFS:
"""
return libguestfsmod.equal (self._o, file1, file2)
+ def strings (self, path):
+ u"""This runs the strings(1) command on a file and returns
+ the list of printable strings found.
+
+ This function returns a list of strings.
+
+ Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer
+ limit of somewhere between 2MB and 4MB. To transfer
+ large files you should use FTP.
+ """
+ return libguestfsmod.strings (self._o, path)
+
+ def strings_e (self, encoding, path):
+ u"""This is like the "g.strings" command, but allows you to
+ specify the encoding.
+
+ See the strings(1) manpage for the full list of
+ encodings.
+
+ Commonly useful encodings are "l" (lower case L) which
+ will show strings inside Windows/x86 files.
+
+ The returned strings are transcoded to UTF-8.
+
+ This function returns a list of strings.
+
+ Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer
+ limit of somewhere between 2MB and 4MB. To transfer
+ large files you should use FTP.
+ """
+ return libguestfsmod.strings_e (self._o, encoding, path)
+
+ def hexdump (self, path):
+ u"""This runs "hexdump -C" on the given "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.
+ """
+ return libguestfsmod.hexdump (self._o, path)
+