plan9 man page for strings

STRINGS(1)						      General Commands Manual							STRINGS(1)

NAME
       strings - extract printable strings

SYNOPSIS
       strings [ file ...  ]

DESCRIPTION
       Strings	finds  and  prints strings containing 6 or more consecutive printable UTF-encoded characters in a (typically) binary file, default
       standard input.	Printable characters are taken to be 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.

SOURCE
       /sys/src/cmd/strings.c

SEE ALSO
       nm(1)

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