August 1999
Intermediate to advanced
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/usr/bin/strings [-a | -][-t format | -o][-n number | - number][file...]
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.
| -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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