strings

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Overview

Strings finds printable strings.

Synopsis:

strings OPTIONS [FILES]...

Description:

Prints all sequences of `n` or more printable characters terminated by a
non-printable character (or EOF).

If no files are specified, read from stdin.

Options:

-n number: the minimum string length (default is 4)
-t string: write each string preceded by its byte offset from the start of the file (d decimal, o octal, x hexadecimal)