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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1980 The Regents of the University of California. |
2 | .\" All rights reserved. | |
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16 | .\" @(#)strings.1 6.5 (Berkeley) %G% | |
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fdb732b2 | 18 | .TH STRINGS 1 "" |
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19 | .UC |
20 | .SH NAME | |
e8d9c970 | 21 | strings \- find the printable strings in a file |
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22 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
23 | .B strings | |
24 | [ | |
e8d9c970 | 25 | .B \-ao |
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26 | ] [ |
27 | \fB\-\fInumber\fR | |
e8d9c970 | 28 | ] [ file ... ] |
3a1a282a | 29 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
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30 | \fIStrings\fP looks for ascii strings in each of the specified files, |
31 | or from the standard input. A string is any sequence of 4 or more printing | |
32 | characters. Unless the \fB-a\fP flag is given, \fIstrings\fP only looks | |
33 | in the initialized data space of object files. If the \fB-o\fP flag is | |
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34 | given, then each string is preceded by its decimal offset in the file. |
35 | If the \fB-\fInumber\fR flag is given, then \fInumber\fP is used as the | |
36 | minimum string length rather than 4. | |
3a1a282a | 37 | .PP |
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38 | \fIStrings\fP is useful for identifying random object files and |
39 | many other things. | |
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40 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
41 | od(1) | |
42 | .SH BUGS | |
570d12e7 | 43 | The algorithm for identifying strings is extremely primitive. |