Manual page for STRINGS(1)
strings - find printable strings in an object file or binary
SYNOPSIS
strings
[
-
] [
-o
] [
-number
]
filename ...
DESCRIPTION
strings
looks for
ASCII
strings in a binary file.
A string is any sequence of 4 or more
printing characters ending with a
NEWLINE
or a
null character.
strings
is useful for identifying random object files and many other things.
OPTIONS
- -
-
Look everywhere in the file for strings. If this flag is omitted,
strings
only looks in the initialized data space of object files.
- -o
-
Precede each string by its
offset in the file.
- -number
-
Use
number
as the minimum string length rather than 4.
SEE ALSO
od.1v
NOTES
strings
is not 8-bit clean because it makes too many
mistakes when it is expected to look for strings
containing non-ASCII characters.
BUGS
The algorithm for identifying strings is extremely primitive.
Created by unroff & hp-tools.
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Last modified 11/5/97
