strings(1) GNU Development Tools strings(1)
NAME
strings - print the strings of printable characters in
files
SYNOPSIS
strings
[-a|-|--all] [-f|--print-file-name] [-o] [--help]
[-v|--version] [-n
min-len|-min-len|--bytes=min-len] [-t
{o,x,d}[--target=bfdname] |--radix={o,x,d}] file
DESCRIPTION
For each file given, GNU strings prints the printable
character sequences that are at least 4 characters long
(or the number given with the options below) and are fol-
lowed by an unprintable character. By default, it only
prints the strings from the initialized and loaded sec-
tions of object files; for other types of files, it prints
the strings from the whole file.
strings is mainly useful for determining the contents of
non-text files.
OPTIONS
The long and short forms of options, shown here as alter-
natives, are equivalent.
-a
--all
- Do not scan only the initialized and loaded sec-
tions of object files; scan the whole files.
-f
--print-file-name
Print the name of the file before each string.
--help Print a summary of the options to strings on the
standard output and exit.
-v
--version
Print the version number of strings on the standard
output and exit.
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-n min-len
-min-len
--bytes=min-len
Print sequences of characters that are at least
min-len characters long, instead of the default 4.
-t {o,x,d}
--radix={o,x,d}
Print the offset within the file before each
string. The single character argument specifies
the radix of the offset--octal, hexadecimal, or
decimal.
--target=bfdname
Specify an object code format other than your sys-
tem's default format. See objdump(1), for informa-
tion on listing available formats.
-o Like -t o.
SEE ALSO
`binutils' entry in info; The GNU Binary Utilities, Roland
H. Pesch (October 1991); ar(1), nm(1), objdump(1), ran-
lib(1).
COPYING
Copyright (c) 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This document is distributed under the terms of the GNU
Free Documentation License, version 1.1. That license is
described in the sources for this manual page, but it is
not displayed here in order to make this manual more con-
sise. Copies of this license can also be obtained from:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/.
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