Re: [Patch] regtool: Add load/unload commands and --binary option

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Jan 24 21:00, Christian Franke wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > the attached patch adds commands "load" and "unload" and options "-b,
> > --binary" to regtool.
> >
> > Load a registry hive from PATH into new SUBKEY:
> >
> > regtool load KEY\SUBKEY PATH
> >
> > Unload and remove SUBKEY later:
> >
> > regtool unload KEY\SUBKEY
> >
> > Print REG_BINARY value as hex:
> >
> > regtool -b get KEY\VALUE
> >
> > Set REG_BINARY value from hex args:
> >
> > regtool -b set KEY\VALUE XX XX XX XX ...
> >
> > [snip]
> > Thanks for any comment
>
> Thanks for this patch, it looks pretty useful.
> [snip]

I wonder if it would be better to use stdin/stdout for binary data (or
even add a -f option for set).  IMHO,

regtool -b get KEY1\\VALUE | regtool -b set KEY2\\VALUE

or

regtool -b get KEY1\\VALUE | regtool -b set -f - KEY2\\VALUE

looks cleaner than storing the hex encoding into a string...  If you want
a hex dump,

regtool -b get KEY1\\VALUE | od -t x1

will do it.  I'm not aware of any program that does the reverse
(hex dump->binary), but writing a perl script for that is trivial.

That said, I also think this functionality would be very useful.
	Igor
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