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1.1       root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
                      2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
                      3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
                      4: .\"
                      5: .\"    @(#)strings.1   6.4 (Berkeley) 12/3/86
                      6: .\"
                      7: .TH STRINGS 1 "December 3, 1986"
                      8: .UC
                      9: .SH NAME
                     10: strings \- find the printable strings in a file
                     11: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     12: .B strings
                     13: [
                     14: .B \-ao
                     15: ] [
                     16: \fB\-\fInumber\fR
                     17: ] [ file ... ]
                     18: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     19: \fIStrings\fP looks for ascii strings in each of the specified files,
                     20: or from the standard input.  A string is any sequence of 4 or more printing
                     21: characters.  Unless the \fB-a\fP flag is given, \fIstrings\fP only looks
                     22: in the initialized data space of object files.  If the \fB-o\fP flag is
                     23: given, then each string is preceded by its decimal offset in the file.
                     24: If the \fB-\fInumber\fR flag is given, then \fInumber\fP is used as the
                     25: minimum string length rather than 4.
                     26: .PP
                     27: \fIStrings\fP is useful for identifying random object files and
                     28: many other things.
                     29: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     30: od(1)
                     31: .SH BUGS
                     32: The algorithm for identifying strings is extremely primitive.

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