StringsSquared

import subprocess import argparse def strings_and_hex_decode(file_path): try: # Step 1: Run `strings` on the file and capture the output result = subprocess.run(['strings', file_path], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, text=True) output = result.stdout # Step 2: Process each line of the output for line in output.splitlines(): # Remove whitespace and check if it's a valid hex string clean_line = line.strip() try: # Attempt to decode as hex decoded_line = bytes.fromhex(clean_line).decode('utf-8') print(f"Original: {clean_line} | Decoded: {decoded_line}") except ValueError: # Skip lines that are not valid hex print(f"Not hex: {clean_line}") except Exception as e: print(f"Error: {e}") if __name__ == "__main__": # Argument parsing parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Extract strings from a file and decode hex lines.") parser.add_argument("file", help="Path to the file to process") args = parser.parse_args() # Call the function with the provided file path strings_and_hex_decode(args.file)