STRINGS(1) — USER COMMANDS

NAME

strings − find printable strings in an object file or binary

strings [ − ] [ −o ] [ −number ] filename ...

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.

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

− Look everywhere in the file for strings. If this flag is omitted, strings only looks in the initialized data space of object files.

−o Precede each string by its offset in the file.

−number
Use number as the minimum string length rather than 4.

The algorithm for identifying strings is extremely primitive.

Sun Release 4.0 — Last change: 9 September 1987