#!/usr/bin/perl 
# bgets - get a string from an address in a binary file
use IO::Seekable;
($file, @addrs) = @ARGV             or die "usage: $0 addr ...";
open(FH, $file)                     or die "cannot open $file: $!";
$/ = "\000";

foreach $addr (@addrs) {
    $addr = oct $addr if $addr =~ /^0/;
    seek(FH, $addr, SEEK_SET)
        or die "can't seek to $addr in $file: $!";
    printf qq{%#x %#o %d "%s"\n}, $addr, $addr, $addr, scalar <>;
}