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- strings - find and display printable strings in files
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- strings [ options ] [ file ... ]
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- strings searches for printable strings in regular files and writes those strings to the standard output. A printable string is any sequence of four (by
default) or more printable characters terminated by a newline or NUL character.
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- -a, --all
- Scan the entire file. Always enabled in this implementation.
- -l, --long-strings
- Ignore newline characters as string terminators and display strings using C character escape sequences. These
strings are suitably escaped for placement inside C "..." and ksh(1) $'...' string literals.
- -m, --multi-byte
- Scan for multibyte strings.
- -n, --length|bytes=number
- Set the minimum matched string length to length. For compatibility -number is equivalent to --length
=number. The default value is 4.
- -t, --radix|format=format
- Write each string preceded by its byte offset from the start of the file. The offset radix is determined by:
- d
- decimal
- o
- octal
- x
- hexadecimal
- -o, --octal
- Equivalent to --radix=o.
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- grep(1), nm(1), what(1)
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- version
- strings (AT&T Research) 2000-04-01
- author
- Glenn Fowler <gsf@research.att.com>
- author
- David Korn <dgk@research.att.com>
- copyright
- Copyright © 1992-2008 AT&T Intellectual Property
- license
- http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl1.0.txt