[clue-tech] What do you do with files in lost+found

[Jack Parker]

ident is a cleaner version of strings - uses the RCS keywords, alas not all
binaries have the keywords set - namely the half dozen I just checked in
/usr/bin.

j.

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On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 05:48:14 -0400
Angelo Bertolli wrote:

> but other ones are apparently binary
> files.  How do I figure out where they belong or what they're old names
> were?

You could try running the strings command on the binaries. Nearly every
program I've seen on a Linux box (except for trivial scripts) will print
out it's name and version in response to being run from the CLI with the
"-v" switch. Also, many have a little mini-help which comes up with "-h".
Those strings are probably stored in the binary someplace, and strings
will find those and print them out.

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