strings.1 (773B)
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 .IR nm (1)