1 .TH STRINGS 1
2 .SH NAME
3 strings \- extract printable strings
4 .SH SYNOPSIS
5 .B strings
6 [
7 .I file ...
8 ]
9 .SH DESCRIPTION
10 .I Strings
11 finds and prints strings containing 6 or more
12 consecutive printable UTF-encoded characters
13 in a (typically) binary file, default
14 standard input.
15 Printable characters are taken to be
16 .SM ASCII
17 characters from blank through tilde (hexadecimal 20 through 7E), inclusive,
18 and
19 all other characters from value 00A0 to FFFF.
20 Strings reports
21 the decimal offset within the file at which the string starts and the text
22 of the string. If the string is longer than 70 runes the line is
23 terminated by three dots and the printing is resumed on the next
24 line with the offset of the continuation line.
25 .SH SOURCE
26 .B \*9/src/cmd/strings.c
27 .SH SEE ALSO
28 .MR nm (1)