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3.2 KiB
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152 lines
3.2 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Free Software Foundation
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.\" See section COPYING for conditions for redistribution
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.TH strings 1 "25 June 1993" "cygnus support" "GNU Development Tools"
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.de BP
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.sp
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.ti \-.2i
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\(**
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..
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.SH NAME
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strings \- print the strings of printable characters in files
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.hy 0
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.na
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.TP
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.B strings
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.RB "[\|" \-a | \-\c
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.RB | \-\-all "\|]"
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.RB "[\|" \-f | \-\-print\-file\-name "\|]"
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.RB "[\|" \-o "\|]"
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.RB "[\|" \-\-help "\|]"
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.RB "[\|" \-v | \-\-version "\|]"
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.RB "[\|" \-n
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.I min\-len\c
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.RI | \-min\-len\c
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.RB | "\-\-bytes="\c
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.I min\-len\c
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\&\|]
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.RB "[\|" \-t
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.I {o,x,d}\c
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.RB "[\|" "\-\-target=\fIbfdname" "\|]"
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.RB | "\-\-radix="\c
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.I {o,x,d}\c
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\&\|]
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.I file\c
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.ad b
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.hy 1
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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For each
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.I file
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given, GNU \c
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.B strings
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prints the printable character sequences that are at least 4
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characters long (or the number given with the options below) and are
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followed by an unprintable character. By default, it only prints the
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strings from the initialized and loaded sections of object files; for
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other types of files, it prints the strings from the whole file.
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.PP
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.B strings
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is mainly useful for determining the contents of non-text files.
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.SH OPTIONS
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The long and short forms of options, shown here as alternatives, are
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equivalent.
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.TP
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.B \-a
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.TP
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.B \-\-all
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.TP
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.B \-
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Do not scan only the initialized and loaded sections of object files;
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scan the whole files.
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.TP
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.B \-f
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.TP
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.B \-\-print\-file\-name
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Print the name of the file before each string.
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.TP
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.B \-\-help
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Print a summary of the options to
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.B strings
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on the standard output and exit.
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.TP
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.B \-v
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.TP
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.B \-\-version
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Print the version number
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of
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.B strings
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on the standard output and exit.
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.TP
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.B "\-n \fImin\-len\fP"
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.TP
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.B "\-\fImin\-len\fP"
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.TP
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.B "\-\-bytes=\fImin\-len\fP"
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Print sequences of characters that are at least
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.I min\-len
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characters long, instead of the default 4.
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.TP
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.BR "\-t " {o,x,d}
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.TP
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.BR "\-\-radix=" {o,x,d}
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Print the offset within the file before each string. The single
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character argument specifies the radix of the offset\(emoctal,
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hexadecimal, or decimal.
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.TP
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.BI "\-\-target=" "bfdname"
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Specify an object code format other than your system's default format.
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See
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.BR objdump ( 1 ),
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for information on listing available formats.
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.TP
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.B \-o
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Like
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.BR "\-t o" .
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.PP
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.RB "`\|" binutils "\|'"
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entry in
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.B
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info\c
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\&;
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.I
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The GNU Binary Utilities\c
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\&, Roland H. Pesch (October 1991);
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.BR ar ( 1 ),
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.BR nm ( 1 ),
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.BR objdump ( 1 ),
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.BR ranlib ( 1 ).
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.SH COPYING
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Copyright (c) 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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.PP
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Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
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this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
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are preserved on all copies.
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.PP
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Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
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manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the
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entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
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permission notice identical to this one.
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.PP
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Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this
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manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified
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versions, except that this permission notice may be included in
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translations approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in
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the original English.
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