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.TH STRINGS 1
.SH NAME
strings \- extract printable strings
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B strings
[
.B -m
.I min
] [
.I file ...
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Strings
finds and prints strings containing
.I min
(default 6)
or more
consecutive printable
.SM UTF\c
-encoded characters
in a (typically) binary file, default
standard input.
Printable characters are taken to be
.SM ASCII
characters from blank through tilde (hexadecimal 20 through 7E), inclusive,
and
all other characters from value 00A0 to FFFF.
Strings reports
the decimal offset within the file at which the string starts and the text
of the string. If the string is longer than 70 runes the line is
terminated by three dots and the printing is resumed on the next
line with the offset of the continuation line.
.SH SOURCE
.B /sys/src/cmd/strings.c
.SH SEE ALSO
.IR nm (1)