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Solaris™ 7 Reference
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Solaris™ 7 Reference

by Janice Winsor
August 1999
Intermediate to advanced
1000 pages
83h 9m
English
Pearson
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strings — Find Printable Strings in an Object or Binary File

Synopsis

/usr/bin/strings [-a | -][-t format | -o][-n number | - number][file...] 

Description

The strings command looks for ASCII strings in a binary file. A string is any sequence of four or more printing characters ending with a newline or a null character.

strings is useful for identifying random object files and many other things.

Note

The algorithm for identifying strings is extremely primitive.

For backward compatibility, the -a and - options are interchangeable.

Options

-a | - Look everywhere in the file for strings. If you omit this option, strings looks only in the initialized data space of object files.
-n number | -number Use number as the minimum string length instead ...
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