Manual page for STRINGS(1)
strings - find the printable strings in a object, or other binary, file
SYNOPSIS
strings
[
-
] [
-a
] [
-o
] [
-number
] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
Strings
looks for ASCII strings in a binary file or standard input.
Strings
is useful for identifying random object files and many other things.
A string is any
sequence of 4 (the default) or more printing characters ending with a newline
or a null. Unless the
-
flag is given,
strings
looks in all sections of the object files except the (__TEXT,__text)
section. If no files are specified standard input is read.
The options to
strings.1
are:
- -a
-
This option causes
strings
to look for strings in all sections of the object file (including the
(__TEXT,__text) section.
- -
-
This option causes
strings
to look for strings in all bytes of the files (the default for non-object files).
- -o
-
Preceded each string by its offset in the file (in decimal).
- -number
-
The decimal
number
is used as the minimum string length rather than the default of 4.
SEE ALSO
od(1)
BUGS
The algorithm for identifying strings is extremely primitive.
Created by unroff & hp-tools.
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Last modified 11/5/97
