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NAME
     strings - find the printable strings in a file

SYNOPSIS
     strings [ -a ] [ -d ] [ -o ] [ -x ] [ -number ] filename...

DESCRIPTION
     Strings 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.

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

     If the -d, -o, or -x options are given, the strings are
     preceded by offsets in decimal, octal, and hex.  The order
     of the offsets (when combinations of these options are
     given) is: octal, decimal, hex.

OPTIONS
     -a  Search the entire file.  Otherwise, strings starts
         looking at the location where an object file's header
         would end.

     -d  Each string is preceded by its offset in the file in
         decimal.

     -o  Each string is preceded by its offset in the file in
         octal.

     -x  Each string is preceded by its offset in the file in
         hex.

     -number
         Number is used as the minimum string length rather than
         four.

EXAMPLES
     The following invocation of this command will print all
     ASCII strings in the object file cmd.o:



          strings cmd.o


RETURN VALUE
     [NO_ERRS]      Command completed without error.

     [USAGE]        Incorrect command line syntax. Execution
                    terminated.




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     [P_ERR]        A system error occurred. Execution
                    terminated.  See intro(2) for more
                    information on system errors.

CAVEATS
     Without the -a option, strings assumes it is searching an
     object file and skips beyond the header text before
     beginning the search.

SEE ALSO
     od(1).












































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%%index%%
na:72,82;
sy:154,247;
de:401,682;
op:1083,645;
ex:1728,200;
rv:1928,227;2299,173;
ca:2472,252;
se:2724,110;
%%index%%000000000141