STRINGS(1)              GENIX Programmer's Manual              STRINGS(1)



      NAME
           strings - find the printable strings in a object, or  other  binary,
           file

      SYNOPSIS
           strings [ - ] [ -o ] [ -number ] file ...

      DESCRIPTION
           Strings looks for ascii strings in a binary file.  A string  is  any
           sequence of 4 or more printing characters ending with a newline or a
           null.  Unless the - flag is given, strings only looks  in  the  ini-
           tialized  data space of object files.  If the -o flag is given, then
           each string is preceded by its offset in the file  (in  octal).   If
           the  -number flag is given then number is used as the minimum string
           length rather than 4.

           Strings is useful for identifying random object files and many other
           things.

      SEE ALSO
           od(1)

      BUGS
           The algorithm for identifying strings is extremely primitive































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