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-.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Free Software Foundation
-.\" See section COPYING for conditions for redistribution
-.TH strings 1 "25 June 1993" "cygnus support" "GNU Development Tools"
-.de BP
-.sp
-.ti \-.2i
-\(**
-..
-
-.SH NAME
-strings \- print the strings of printable characters in files
-
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.hy 0
-.na
-.TP
-.B strings
-.RB "[\|" \-a | \-\c
-.RB | \-\-all "\|]"
-.RB "[\|" \-f | \-\-print\-file\-name "\|]"
-.RB "[\|" \-o "\|]"
-.RB "[\|" \-\-help "\|]"
-.RB "[\|" \-v | \-\-version "\|]"
-.RB "[\|" \-n
-.I min\-len\c
-.RI | \-min\-len\c
-.RB | "\-\-bytes="\c
-.I min\-len\c
-\&\|]
-.RB "[\|" \-t
-.I {o,x,d}\c
-.RB "[\|" "\-\-target=\fIbfdname" "\|]"
-.RB | "\-\-radix="\c
-.I {o,x,d}\c
-\&\|]
-.I file\c
-.ad b
-.hy 1
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-For each
-.I file
-given, GNU \c
-.B strings
-prints the printable character sequences that are at least 4
-characters long (or the number given with the options below) and are
-followed by an unprintable character. By default, it only prints the
-strings from the initialized and loaded sections of object files; for
-other types of files, it prints the strings from the whole file.
-
-.PP
-.B strings
-is mainly useful for determining the contents of non-text files.
-
-.SH OPTIONS
-The long and short forms of options, shown here as alternatives, are
-equivalent.
-
-.TP
-.B \-a
-.TP
-.B \-\-all
-.TP
-.B \-
-Do not scan only the initialized and loaded sections of object files;
-scan the whole files.
-
-.TP
-.B \-f
-.TP
-.B \-\-print\-file\-name
-Print the name of the file before each string.
-
-.TP
-.B \-\-help
-Print a summary of the options to
-.B strings
-on the standard output and exit.
-
-.TP
-.B \-v
-.TP
-.B \-\-version
-Print the version number
-of
-.B strings
-on the standard output and exit.
-
-.TP
-.B "\-n \fImin\-len\fP"
-.TP
-.B "\-\fImin\-len\fP"
-.TP
-.B "\-bytes=\fImin\-len\fP"
-Print sequences of characters that are at least
-.I min\-len
-characters long, instead of the default 4.
-
-.TP
-.BR "\-t " {o,x,d}
-.TP
-.BR "\-\-radix=" {o,x,d}
-Print the offset within the file before each string. The single
-character argument specifies the radix of the offset\(emoctal,
-hexadecimal, or decimal.
-
-.TP
-.BI "\-\-target=" "bfdname"
-Specify an object code format other than your system's default format.
-See
-.BR objdump ( 1 ),
-for information on listing available formats.
-
-.TP
-.B \-o
-Like
-.BR "\-t o" .
-
-.PP
-
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
-.RB "`\|" binutils "\|'"
-entry in
-.B
-info\c
-\&;
-.I
-The GNU Binary Utilities\c
-\&, Roland H. Pesch (October 1991);
-.BR ar ( 1 ),
-.BR nm ( 1 ),
-.BR objdump ( 1 ),
-.BR ranlib ( 1 ).
-
-
-.SH COPYING
-Copyright (c) 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-.PP
-Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
-this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
-are preserved on all copies.
-.PP
-Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
-manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the
-entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
-permission notice identical to this one.
-.PP
-Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this
-manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified
-versions, except that this permission notice may be included in
-translations approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in
-the original English.