使用 Homebrew 安装 bgrep

项目链接

• 主页

命令和别名

• bgrep

项目历史

The README gives the origin story plainly: the author was annoyed that grep could not look for binary strings and wrote a tool for that job. The GitHub repository was created in 2010, has a small tag history, and remains a compact C utility rather than a broad search framework.

采用历史

The input metadata records Homebrew packaging for bgrep. Its adoption is correspondingly modest and toolbelt-oriented: useful enough to package, but intentionally small.

使用方式

bgrep searches for a hex byte pattern, can recurse through directories, can print before/after context bytes, can read a pattern from a file, and can apply a mask file for wildcard bytes. When no path is given, it reads standard input.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

The package is significant in the classic Unix sense: one C file, one executable, one missing behavior from grep filled without pulling in a larger forensic suite. It is handy for firmware, image, dump, and protocol-payload spelunking.

时间线

• 2010: Initial GitHub commit.
• 2011: bgrep-0.2 tag appears.
• 2026: bgrep-0.3 tag updates README usage around context flags.

Related projects

• The obvious related tool is grep(1), which the README names as the motivation. It also overlaps with hex editors, hexdump/xxd workflows, and binary-analysis command-line tools.

来源

• https://api.github.com/repos/tmbinc/bgrep
• https://github.com/tmbinc/bgrep#readme
• input.source_facts.package-manager