strings man page on Ultrix

strings man page on Ultrix

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Name
       strings - print ASCII strings in program

Syntax
       strings [-|a] [-o] [-number] file...

Description
       The  command looks for ascii strings in a binary file.  A string is any
       sequence of 4 or more printing characters ending with a	newline	 or  a
       null.

       The  command  is	 useful	 for  identifying random object files and many
       other things.

Options
       - or -a	 Looks through the  entire  object  file  for  ASCII  strings.
		 Default is to look only in the initialized data space.

       -number	 Sets the minimum string length to specified number of charac‐
		 ters and default is 4.

       -o	 Precedes each string with its file offset (octal).

See Also
       od(1)

								    strings(1)

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