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All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement
specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
@(#)strings.1 6.4 (Berkeley) 12/03/86
STRINGS 1 ""
C NAME
strings - find the printable strings in a file
SYNOPSIS
strings [
-ao ] [
-number
] [ file ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Strings looks for ascii strings in each of the specified files,
or from the standard input. A string is any sequence of 4 or more printing
characters. Unless the -a flag is given, strings only looks
in the initialized data space of object files. If the -o flag is
given, then each string is preceded by its decimal offset in the file.
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.