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| 1 .TH STRINGS 1 | |
| 2 .SH NAME | |
| 3 strings \- extract printable strings | |
| 4 .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 5 .B strings | |
| 6 [ | |
| 7 .I file ... | |
| 8 ] | |
| 9 .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 10 .I Strings | |
| 11 finds and prints strings containing 6 or more | |
| 12 consecutive printable UTF-encoded characters | |
| 13 in a (typically) binary file, default | |
| 14 standard input. | |
| 15 Printable characters are taken to be | |
| 16 .SM ASCII | |
| 17 characters from blank through tilde (hexadecimal 20 through 7E), inclusi… | |
| 18 and | |
| 19 all other characters from value 00A0 to FFFF. | |
| 20 Strings reports | |
| 21 the decimal offset within the file at which the string starts and the te… | |
| 22 of the string. If the string is longer than 70 runes the line is | |
| 23 terminated by three dots and the printing is resumed on the next | |
| 24 line with the offset of the continuation line. | |
| 25 .SH SOURCE | |
| 26 .B \*9/src/cmd/strings.c | |
| 27 .SH SEE ALSO | |
| 28 .IR nm (1) |