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NAME
     strings - print  the  strings  of  printable  characters  in
     files.

SYNOPSIS
     strings [-afov] [-min-len]
             [-n min-len] [--bytes=min-len]
             [-t radix] [--radix=radix]
             [-e encoding] [--encoding=encoding]
             [-] [--all] [--print-file-name]
             [-T bfdname] [--target=bfdname]
             [--help] [--version] file...

DESCRIPTION
     For each  file  given,  GNU  strings  prints  the  printable
     character  sequences that are at least 4 characters long (or
     the number given with the options below) and are followed by
     an  unprintable  character.   By default, it only prints the
     strings from the initialized and loaded sections  of  object
     files;  for other types of files, it prints the strings from
     the whole file.

     strings is mainly useful for  determining  the  contents  of
     non-text files.

OPTIONS
     -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.



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         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.

         Options  in  file  are  separated  by   whitespace.    A
         whitespace  character  may  be  included in an option by
         surrounding the entire option in either single or double
         quotes.   Any  character  (including a backslash) may be
         included by prefixing the character to be included  with
         a  backslash.   The  file  may itself contain additional
         @file  options;  any  such  options  will  be  processed
         recursively.

SEE ALSO
     ar(1), nm(1), objdump(1), ranlib(1), readelf(1) and the Info
     entries for binutils.

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright (c) 1991, 1992,  1993,  1994,  1995,  1996,  1997,
     1998,  1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007,
     2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

     Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
     document  under  the  terms  of  the  GNU Free Documentation
     License, Version 1.2 or any later version published  by  the



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     Free  Software  Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with
     no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts.  A  copy
     of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free
     Documentation License".

ATTRIBUTES
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     attributes:

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NOTES
     Source    for    GNU    binutils     is     available     on
     http://opensolaris.org.



































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