Lot of times, you would like to get the complete string in hex or ascii format and if you are one of them then this is something that will be helpful for you 🙂
Example output:
lp-amita[d=~/bin]> ./ascii aamit
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String – aamit, Length – 5
If you want to use snoop or tcpdump with advanced search in the packet, then you would need to convert the string to hex string. For this, either you can use a web search and find some web application to do that or you can use a simple C program like this 🙂
/*
* =====================================================================================
*
* Filename: ascii.c
*
* Description: ascii to dec
*
* Version: 1.0
* Ceated: 03/02/2012 12:08:49 PM
* Revision: none
* Compiler: gcc
*
* Author: Amit Agarwal (aka), amit.agarwal@roamware.com
* Last modified: Thu Mar 08, 2012 08:47PM
*
* =====================================================================================
*/
void main (int argc, char **argv){
int i=0;
char a[200]="",b[200]="";
printf("String - %s, Length - %d\n",argv[1],strlen(argv[1]));
/*printf("%x\n 0x",argv[1]);*/
while (i < strlen(argv[1])){
/*printf("%c",argv[1][i]);*/
sprintf(a,"%s%x",a,argv[1][i]);
/*printf("a=%s\n",a);
printf("b=%s\n",b);*/
sprintf(b,"%s%d",b,argv[1][i]);
i++;
}
printf ("\n");
printf ("String : %s\n",argv[1]);
printf ("Hex : 0x%s\n", a);
printf ("Dec : %s\n", b);
}
