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.
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: