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strings(1)			 User Commands			    strings(1)

NAME
       strings - find printable strings in an object or binary file

SYNOPSIS
       strings [-a | -]	 [-t format | -o]  [-n number | -number]  [file...]

DESCRIPTION
       The  strings utility 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 character.

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

OPTIONS
       The following options are supported:

       -a | −		       Look everywhere in the  file  for  strings.  If
			       this flag is omitted, strings only looks in the
			       initialized data space of object files.

       -n number | -number     Use a  number  as  the  minimum	string	length
			       rather than the default, which is 4.

       -o		       Equivalent to -t d option.

       -t format	       Write  each  string preceded by its byte offset
			       from the start  of  the	file.  The  format  is
			       dependent  on  the single character used as the
			       format option-argument:

			       d	The offset will be written in decimal.

			       o	The offset will be written in octal.

			       x	The offset will be written in hexadec‐
					imal.

OPERANDS
       The following operand is supported:

       file	A  path name of a regular file to be used as input. If no file
		operand is specified, the strings utility will read  from  the
		standard input.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       See  environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables
       that affect the execution of strings: LANG, LC_ALL,  LC_CTYPE,  LC_MES‐
       SAGES, and NLSPATH.

EXIT STATUS
       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Successful completion.

       >0	An error occurred.

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
       │      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     │	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   │
       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
       │Availability		     │SUNWtoo			   │
       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
       │CSI			     │Enabled			   │
       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
       │Interface Stability	     │Standard			   │
       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘

SEE ALSO
       od(1), attributes(5), environ(5), standards(5)

NOTES
       The algorithm for identifying strings is extremely primitive.

       For backwards compatibility, the options -a and − are interchangeable.

SunOS 5.10			  20 Dec 1996			    strings(1)

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