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STRINGS(1)                  General Commands Manual                 STRINGS(1)

NAME
       strings - extract printable strings

SYNOPSIS
       strings [ file ...  ]

DESCRIPTION
       Strings  finds  and  prints  strings  containing  6 or more consecutive
       printable UTF-encoded characters in a (typically) binary file,  default
       standard  input.  Printable characters are taken to be ASCII characters
       from blank through tilde (hexadecimal 20 through  7E),  inclusive,  and
       all other characters from value 00A0 to FFFF.  Strings reports the dec‐
       imal  offset within the file at which the string starts and the text of
       the string. If the string is longer than 70 runes the  line  is  termi‐
       nated  by  three dots and the printing is resumed on the next line with
       the offset of the continuation line.

SOURCE
       /sys/src/cmd/strings.c

SEE ALSO
       nm(1)

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