bindist

Calculate distance between two hexadecimal values in a given file.

Example use case is file format signature development, e.g. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/droid-list/QRQ9LScT8iw

  Usage:  bindist [-magic1 ...] [-magic2 ...] [-file ...]
                  [Optional -size] [Optional -fname]
                  [Optional -version]

  Output: [CSV] 'offset','size','filename'
  Output: [STRING] 'bindist version ...'                     

    -file string
      	File to find the distance between.
    -fname
      	[Optional] Return filename alongside offset and size.
    -magic1 string
      	First magic number in a file to begin from, and offset, e.g. magic,offset.
    -magic2 string
      	Second magic number in a file to search for, no offset, e.g. magic.
    -size
      	[Optional] Return size of file alongsize offset in bytes.
    -version
        [Optional] Return version of bindist.

TODO

• Potentially use a graphics library to scatter plot for us.
• Attempt to enable Linux globbing / stdio

License

GPL Version 3: https://github.com/ross-spencer/bindist/blob/master/LICENSE