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Manpages stringsSection: GNU Development Tools (1)Updated: 25 June 1993 Index Return to Main Contents NAMEstrings - print the strings of printable characters in filesSYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTIONFor each file given, GNU strings prints the printable character sequences that are at least 4 characters long (or the number given with the options below) and are followed by an unprintable character. By default, it only prints the strings from the initialized and loaded sections of object files; for other types of files, it prints the strings from the whole file.
strings is mainly useful for determining the contents of non-text files. OPTIONSThe long and short forms of options, shown here as alternatives, are equivalent.
SEE ALSO`binutils' entry in info; The GNU Binary Utilities, Roland H. Pesch (October 1991); ar(1), nm(1), objdump(1), ranlib(1).
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