Can BBEdit search an disk for the first occurance of any hex value that
is not "00"?

This comes in handy sometimes to pin down random corruption of a disk
area in OSX like the "Driver_Descriptor_Map" area, which will not
tolerate some areas that should be all "00".
(I found that out the hard way)

I should really learn "grep", but never seem to get the time to study
that command-line tool.

I need BBEdit anyhow to handle large text files. I have an old
version-6, but am not sure if it will work well with OS X.

That brings up another question. Is it worthwhile to upgrade to the
lastest version of BBEdit?

As near as I can determine, most of the added features are just for
HTML usage, which presently is not of any interest to me. The upgrade
price is very modest though, only $39 as I recall.

Mark-

In article <141020040905109681%NoSpamDammit[at]invalid.com>, Mark Conrad
<NoSpamDammit[at]invalid.com> wrote:

> Can BBEdit search an disk for the first occurance of any hex value that
> is not "00"?
>
> This comes in handy sometimes to pin down random corruption of a disk
> area in OSX like the "Driver_Descriptor_Map" area, which will not
> tolerate some areas that should be all "00".
> (I found that out the hard way)
>
> I should really learn "grep", but never seem to get the time to study
> that command-line tool.

BBEdit: Search->Find... click on the "Use grep" checkbox

In article <141020041408031766%no.email[at]example.com>, David C. Stone
<no.email[at]example.com> wrote:

> > I should really learn "grep", but never seem to get the time to study
> > that command-line tool.
>
> BBEdit: Search->Find... click on the "Use grep" checkbox

Thanks, I will add that to my list of references for learning grep.

Mark-