| 1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1993 Free Software Foundation |
| 2 | .\" See section COPYING for conditions for redistribution |
| 3 | .TH strings 1 "25 June 1993" "cygnus support" "GNU Development Tools" |
| 4 | .de BP |
| 5 | .sp |
| 6 | .ti \-.2i |
| 7 | \(** |
| 8 | .. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | .SH NAME |
| 11 | strings \- print the strings of printable characters in files |
| 12 | |
| 13 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 14 | .hy 0 |
| 15 | .na |
| 16 | .TP |
| 17 | .B strings |
| 18 | .RB "[\|" \-a | \-\c |
| 19 | .RB | \-\-all "\|]" |
| 20 | .RB "[\|" \-f | \-\-print\-file\-name "\|]" |
| 21 | .RB "[\|" \-o "\|]" |
| 22 | .RB "[\|" \-\-help "\|]" |
| 23 | .RB "[\|" \-v | \-\-version "\|]" |
| 24 | .RB "[\|" \-n |
| 25 | .I min\-len\c |
| 26 | .RI | \-min\-len\c |
| 27 | .RB | "\-\-bytes="\c |
| 28 | .I min\-len\c |
| 29 | \&\|] |
| 30 | .RB "[\|" \-t |
| 31 | .I {o,x,d}\c |
| 32 | .RB "[\|" "\-\-target=\fIbfdname" "\|]" |
| 33 | .RB | "\-\-radix="\c |
| 34 | .I {o,x,d}\c |
| 35 | \&\|] |
| 36 | .I file\c |
| 37 | .ad b |
| 38 | .hy 1 |
| 39 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 40 | For each |
| 41 | .I file |
| 42 | given, GNU \c |
| 43 | .B strings |
| 44 | prints the printable character sequences that are at least 4 |
| 45 | characters long (or the number given with the options below) and are |
| 46 | followed by an unprintable character. By default, it only prints the |
| 47 | strings from the initialized and loaded sections of object files; for |
| 48 | other types of files, it prints the strings from the whole file. |
| 49 | |
| 50 | .PP |
| 51 | .B strings |
| 52 | is mainly useful for determining the contents of non-text files. |
| 53 | |
| 54 | .SH OPTIONS |
| 55 | The long and short forms of options, shown here as alternatives, are |
| 56 | equivalent. |
| 57 | |
| 58 | .TP |
| 59 | .B \-a |
| 60 | .TP |
| 61 | .B \-\-all |
| 62 | .TP |
| 63 | .B \- |
| 64 | Do not scan only the initialized and loaded sections of object files; |
| 65 | scan the whole files. |
| 66 | |
| 67 | .TP |
| 68 | .B \-f |
| 69 | .TP |
| 70 | .B \-\-print\-file\-name |
| 71 | Print the name of the file before each string. |
| 72 | |
| 73 | .TP |
| 74 | .B \-\-help |
| 75 | Print a summary of the options to |
| 76 | .B strings |
| 77 | on the standard output and exit. |
| 78 | |
| 79 | .TP |
| 80 | .B \-v |
| 81 | .TP |
| 82 | .B \-\-version |
| 83 | Print the version number |
| 84 | of |
| 85 | .B strings |
| 86 | on the standard output and exit. |
| 87 | |
| 88 | .TP |
| 89 | .B "\-n \fImin\-len\fP" |
| 90 | .TP |
| 91 | .B "\-\fImin\-len\fP" |
| 92 | .TP |
| 93 | .B "\-bytes=\fImin\-len\fP" |
| 94 | Print sequences of characters that are at least |
| 95 | .I min\-len |
| 96 | characters long, instead of the default 4. |
| 97 | |
| 98 | .TP |
| 99 | .BR "\-t " {o,x,d} |
| 100 | .TP |
| 101 | .BR "\-\-radix=" {o,x,d} |
| 102 | Print the offset within the file before each string. The single |
| 103 | character argument specifies the radix of the offset\(emoctal, |
| 104 | hexadecimal, or decimal. |
| 105 | |
| 106 | .TP |
| 107 | .BI "\-\-target=" "bfdname" |
| 108 | Specify an object code format other than your system's default format. |
| 109 | See |
| 110 | .BR objdump ( 1 ), |
| 111 | for information on listing available formats. |
| 112 | |
| 113 | .TP |
| 114 | .B \-o |
| 115 | Like |
| 116 | .BR "\-t o" . |
| 117 | |
| 118 | .PP |
| 119 | |
| 120 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| 121 | .RB "`\|" binutils "\|'" |
| 122 | entry in |
| 123 | .B |
| 124 | info\c |
| 125 | \&; |
| 126 | .I |
| 127 | The GNU Binary Utilities\c |
| 128 | \&, Roland H. Pesch (October 1991); |
| 129 | .BR ar ( 1 ), |
| 130 | .BR nm ( 1 ), |
| 131 | .BR objdump ( 1 ), |
| 132 | .BR ranlib ( 1 ). |
| 133 | |
| 134 | |
| 135 | .SH COPYING |
| 136 | Copyright (c) 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
| 137 | .PP |
| 138 | Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of |
| 139 | this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice |
| 140 | are preserved on all copies. |
| 141 | .PP |
| 142 | Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this |
| 143 | manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the |
| 144 | entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a |
| 145 | permission notice identical to this one. |
| 146 | .PP |
| 147 | Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this |
| 148 | manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified |
| 149 | versions, except that this permission notice may be included in |
| 150 | translations approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in |
| 151 | the original English. |