STRINGS(1-SysV)     RISC/os Reference Manual      STRINGS(1-SysV)



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, core
     files, and many other things.

SEE ALSO
     od(1)

ERRORS
     The algorithm for identifying strings is extremely primi-
     tive.






























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