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diff --git a/guestfish-actions.pod b/guestfish-actions.pod index 62be2a91..04343af2 100644 --- a/guestfish-actions.pod +++ b/guestfish-actions.pod @@ -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. |