Linux in a Nutshell, Fourth Edition

Name

strings

Synopsis

                  strings [options] files
               

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.

-e encoding, --encoding= encoding

Specify the character encoding of the strings to be found. Possible values are:

b

16-bit big-endian

B

32-bit big-endian

l

16-bit little-endian

L

32-bit little-endian

s

Single-byte character, such as ASCII, ISO-8859, etc. (the default)

-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.

-o

The same as -t o.

-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. Valid targets include elf32-i386, a.out-i386-linux, efi-app-ia32, elf32-little, elf32-big, srec, symbolsrec, tekhex, binary, ihex, and trad-core.

--help

Print help message and then exit. The help message includes a list of valid targets.

-v, --version

Print version information and then exit.