strings(C)                      19 June 1992                      strings(C)


 Name

    strings - find the printable strings in an object file

 Syntax

    strings [ - ] [ -o ] [ -number ] filename ...

 Description

    The strings command looks for ASCII strings in a binary file.  A string
    is any sequence of four or more printing characters ending with a newline
    or a null character.  Unless the ``-'' 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

    hd(C), od(C)

 Credit

    This utility was developed at the University of California at Berkeley
    and is used with permission.