strings

NAME

strings - Windows command-line utility to find printable strings in files and print to the standard output

SYNOPSIS

strings [-a] [-t format] [-n number] [file...]

strings [-] [-t format] [-number] [file...]

DESCRIPTION

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.

DIAGNOSTICS

Possible exit-status values are:

0
Successful completion
1
Failure