Strings (Unix)

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In computer software, strings is a program in Unix-like operating systems that prints the strings found in an executable.

Common usage includes piping it to grep or redirecting the output to a file.

It is part of the GNU Binary Utilities (binutils), and has been ported to other operating systems including Microsoft Windows.

Example

$ strings foobar
Qåtd
/lib/ld-linux.so.2
_Jv_RegisterClasses
__gmon_start__
libc.so.6
puts
_IO_stdin_used
__libc_start_main
GLIBC_2.0
...

External links

[link] The program's manpage

Unix command line programs ( [ view] • [ talk] • [ edit] )
File and file system management:	cat \| chdir/cd \| chmod \| chown \| chgrp \| cp \| du \| df \| fdupes \| file \| fsck \| ln \| ls \| lsof \| mkdir \| more \| mount \| mv \| pwd \| rcp \| rm \| rmdir \| split \| touch \| tree
Process management:	anacron \| at \| chroot \| cron/crontab \| kill \| nice \| ps \| sleep \| time \| timex \| top \| renice \| wait
User Management/Environment:	env \| finger \| id \| locale \| mesg \| passwd \| su \| sudo \| uname \| uptime \| w \| who \| write
Text processing:	awk \| cut \| diff \| ex \| head \| iconv \| join \| less \| more \| nkf \| paste \| sed \| sort \| tail \| tr \| uniq \| wc \| xargs
Shell programming:	echo \| expr \| unset	Printing:	lp
Communications: inetd \| netstat \| ping \| rlogin \| traceroute	Searching: egrep \| fgrep \| find \| grep \| strings	Miscellaneous: banner \| bc \| cal \| man \| uname \| wall \| yes

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Strings (Unix)

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