Strings - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 4 - USING BINUTILS Using Instructions

strings [

] [
-afov
[
-n min-len
[
-t radix
[
-e encoding
[ ] [
- --all
[
--target=bfdname
[ ] [
--help
For each given, gnu
file
ters 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.
is mainly useful for determining the contents of non-text files.
strings
-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
-o
Like . Some other versions of
-t o
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--
]
-min-len
] [
--bytes=min-len
] [
--radix=radix
] [
--encoding=encoding
] [
--print-file-name
]
]
--version file
prints the printable character sequences that are at least 4 charac-
strings
strings
for octal, for hexadecimal, or
o x
]
]
]
]
...
characters long, instead of the default 4.
min-len
have act like
-o
for decimal.
d
Chapter 8.
strings
instead. Since we can not be
-t d