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- STRINGS
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- Purpose
- find printable strings in binary files
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- Syntax
- strings [-o$0] [-number] file...
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- Comments
- Strings searches a file for printable ASCII strings, which are
- defined as any sequence of 4 of more printable characters ending with a
- newline, dollar sign, or null. Any type of file can be searched, but
- using the command on a text file has no obvious purpose.
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- Options
- -o precede each string by its octal offset in the file.
- -$ don't allow '$' as a string terminator.
- -0 allow all nonprinting characters as string terminators.
- -number use number as the minimum string length instead of 4.