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strings \- find the printable strings in a object, or other binary, file
looks for ascii strings in a binary file.
A string is any sequence of 4 or more printing characters ending with
only looks in the initialized data space of object files.
flag is given, then each string is preceded by its offset in the
flag is given then number is used as the minimum string length
is useful for identifying random object files and many other things.
The algorithm for identifying strings is extremely primitive