| STRINGS(1) | GNU Development Tools | STRINGS(1) |
strings is mainly useful for determining the contents of non-text files.
| -a |
| --all |
| - | Do not scan only the initialized and loaded sections of object files; scan the whole files. |
| -f |
| --print-file-name | Print the name of the file before each string. |
| --help | Print a summary of the program usage on the standard output and exit. |
| -min-len |
| -n min-len |
| --bytes=min-len | Print sequences of characters that are at least min-len characters long, instead of the default 4. |
| -o | Like -t o. Some other versions of strings have -o act like -t d instead. Since we can not be compatible with both ways, we simply chose one. |
| -t radix |
| --radix=radix | Print the offset within the file before each string. The single character argument specifies the radix of the offset--- o for octal, x for hexadecimal, or d for decimal. |
| -e encoding |
| --encoding=encoding | Select the character encoding of the strings that are to be found. Possible values for encoding are: s = single-7-bit-byte characters (ASCII, ISO 8859, etc., default), S = single-8-bit-byte characters, b = 16-bit bigendian, l = 16-bit littleendian, B = 32-bit bigendian, L = 32-bit littleendian. Useful for finding wide-character strings. ( l and b apply to, for example, Unicode UTF-16/UCS-2 encodings). |
| -T bfdname |
| --target=bfdname | Specify an object code format other than your system's default format. |
| -v |
| --version | Print the program version number on the standard output and exit. |
| @file |
Read command-line options from file. The options read are inserted in place of the original @ file option. If file does not exist, or cannot be read, then the option will be treated literally, and not removed. |
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| September 7, 2009 | binutils-2.19.1 |