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diff --git a/man/1/strings b/man/1/strings new file mode 100644 index 00000000..af1eb29f --- /dev/null +++ b/man/1/strings @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +.TH STRINGS 1 +.SH NAME +strings \- extract printable strings +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B strings +[ +.I file ... +] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I 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 +.SM 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. +.SH SOURCE +.B /appl/cmd/strings.b + |