The strings(1w) Windows utility looks for printable
strings in regular files, and writes those strings to the standard
output. A printable string is any sequence of four (by default) or
more printable characters terminated by a newline or a NULL
character.
OPTIONS
The strings utility supports the following options:
- or -a
Scans files in their entirety. If the -a
option is not specified, strings scans only the
.data, .rdata, and .edata in PE EXE,
PE DLL, and COFF OBJ files.
-n
The user can specify the minimum string length number,
where the number argument is a positive decimal integer. The
default is 4. The user can also specify the minimum string
length number without specifying the -n option
as -number.
-t
Writes each string preceded by its byte offset from the start
of the file. The format is dependent on the single character used
as the format option-argument. The format can be
either d (decimal), o (octal), or x
(hexadecimal).
ARGUMENTS
The strings utility supports the following argument:
file
The path of the regular file to be used as input. If no
file operand is specified, strings reads from the
standard input.