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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement | |
| 3 | .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. | |
| 4 | .\" | |
| c67c9d58 | 5 | .\" @(#)strings.1 6.4 (Berkeley) %G% |
| 3a1a282a | 6 | .\" |
| fdb732b2 | 7 | .TH STRINGS 1 "" |
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8 | .UC |
| 9 | .SH NAME | |
| e8d9c970 | 10 | strings \- find the printable strings in a file |
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11 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 12 | .B strings | |
| 13 | [ | |
| e8d9c970 | 14 | .B \-ao |
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15 | ] [ |
| 16 | \fB\-\fInumber\fR | |
| e8d9c970 | 17 | ] [ file ... ] |
| 3a1a282a | 18 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
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19 | \fIStrings\fP looks for ascii strings in each of the specified files, |
| 20 | or from the standard input. A string is any sequence of 4 or more printing | |
| 21 | characters. Unless the \fB-a\fP flag is given, \fIstrings\fP only looks | |
| 22 | in the initialized data space of object files. If the \fB-o\fP flag is | |
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23 | given, then each string is preceded by its decimal offset in the file. |
| 24 | If the \fB-\fInumber\fR flag is given, then \fInumber\fP is used as the | |
| 25 | minimum string length rather than 4. | |
| 3a1a282a | 26 | .PP |
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27 | \fIStrings\fP is useful for identifying random object files and |
| 28 | many other things. | |
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29 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| 30 | od(1) | |
| 31 | .SH BUGS | |
| 570d12e7 | 32 | The algorithm for identifying strings is extremely primitive. |