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Cleanup output from GDB memory dump

We lost a configuration file which we were able to recover some of the data with a gdb memory dump but many important parts of the file are buried in memory noise.

Is there a way to cleanup the dump files?

Example output

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Solution

  • The strings command was able to remove the garbage from the file.

    strings mem_7fbf71165000 > strings.txt