How can I search/browse in some process's memory?

Question

I'm using MacOS X 10.7 and I'm not very familiar with unix. Is there a command for a search in some process's memory for a string?

Answer 1

Unfortunately Mac OSX does not have a /proc file system. On other species of unix the /proc filesystem should have an entry for each running process named with the corresponding pid. The memory space of the process would be available through /proc/${pid}/mem to root or any user with appropriate permissions.

I believe system calls are available that do much of this. This link is to a stackoverflow posting where the author has written a utility that dumps the memory image of a process to disk. It might do what you want.