STRINGS(1) General Commands Manual STRINGS(1)NAME
strings - extract printable strings
SYNOPSIS
strings [ file ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Strings finds and prints strings containing 6 or more consecutive printable UTF-encoded characters in a (typically) binary file, default
standard input. Printable characters are taken to be ASCII characters from blank through tilde (hexadecimal 20 through 7E), inclusive, and
all other characters from value 00A0 to FFFF. Strings reports the decimal offset within the file at which the string starts and the text
of the string. If the string is longer than 70 runes the line is terminated by three dots and the printing is resumed on the next line with
the offset of the continuation line.
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/strings.c
SEE ALSO nm(1)STRINGS(1)
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STRINGS(1) GNU Development Tools STRINGS(1)NAME
strings - print the strings of printable characters in files.
SYNOPSIS
strings [-afov] [-min-len]
[-n min-len] [--bytes=min-len]
[-t radix] [--radix=radix]
[-e encoding] [--encoding=encoding]
[-] [--all] [--print-file-name]
[--target=bfdname]
[--help] [--version] file...
DESCRIPTION
For each file given, GNU strings prints the printable character sequences that are at least 4 characters long (or the number given with the
options below) and are followed by an unprintable character. By default, it only prints the strings from the initialized and loaded sec-
tions of object files; for other types of files, it prints the strings from the whole file.
strings is mainly useful for determining the contents of non-text files.
OPTIONS -a
--all
- Do not scan only the initialized and loaded sections of object files; scan the whole files.
-f
--print-file-name
Print the name of the file before each string.
--help
Print a summary of the program usage on the standard output and exit.
-min-len
-n min-len
--bytes=min-len
Print sequences of characters that are at least min-len characters long, instead of the default 4.
-o Like -t o. Some other versions of strings have -o act like -t d instead. Since we can not be compatible with both ways, we simply
chose one.
-t radix
--radix=radix
Print the offset within the file before each string. The single character argument specifies the radix of the offset---o for octal, x
for hexadecimal, or d for decimal.
-e encoding
--encoding=encoding
Select the character encoding of the strings that are to be found. Possible values for encoding are: s = single-7-bit-byte characters
(ASCII, ISO 8859, etc., default), S = single-8-bit-byte characters, b = 16-bit bigendian, l = 16-bit littleendian, B = 32-bit bigen-
dian, L = 32-bit littleendian. Useful for finding wide character strings.
--target=bfdname
Specify an object code format other than your system's default format.
-v
--version
Print the program version number on the standard output and exit.
SEE ALSO ar(1), nm(1), objdump(1), ranlib(1), readelf(1) and the Info entries for binutils.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1991, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
binutils-2.13.90.0.18 2003-02-24 STRINGS(1)
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