4.3BSD - /usr/man/cat1/strings.0

STRINGS(1)                                                          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  initial‐
       ized  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  -num���
       ber  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.


3rd Berkeley Distribution        May 12, 1986                       STRINGS(1)