Chapter 11. File Utilities
This chapter describes a set of Sysinternals utilities focused on file management and manipulation. All of the utilities described in this chapter are console utilities:
Strings searches files for embedded ASCII or Unicode text.
Streams identifies file system objects that have alternate data streams and, optionally, deletes those streams.
Junction and FindLinks report on and manipulate directory junctions and hard links, which are two types of NTFS links.
DU reports the logical and on-disk sizes of a directory hierarchy.
PendMoves and MoveFile report on and register file operations to take place during the next system boot.
Strings
In computer programming, the term “string” refers to a data structure consisting of a sequence ...
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