Name
strings
Synopsis
strings [options] files
Description
Search each file specified and print any printable character strings found that are at least four characters long and followed by an unprintable character.
Options
- -, -a, --all
Scan entire object files; default is to scan only the initialized and loaded sections for object files.
- -f, --print-file-name
Print the name of the file before each string.
- - min-len, -n min-len, --bytes= min-len
Print only strings that are at least min-len characters.
- -t base, --radix= base
Print the offset within the file before each string, in the format specified by base:
- d
Decimal
- o
Octal
- x
Hexadecimal
- --target= format
Specify an alternative object code format to the system default.
- -o
Same as -t o.
- --help
Print help message and then exit.
- -v, --version
Print version information and then exit.
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