Return to strings CVS log

Up to [Plan 9 NeXT] / lucent / sys / man / 1

Annotation of lucent/sys/man/1/strings, revision 1.1.1.1

1.1       root        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 /sys/src/cmd/strings.c
                     27: .SH SEE ALSO
                     28: .IR nm (1)

This archive runs on limited infrastructure. Preserving old code on modern bandwidth. Automated agents are requested to crawl responsibly.