strings.1 (860B)
1 .Dd 2015-10-08 2 .Dt STRINGS 1 3 .Os sbase 4 .Sh NAME 5 .Nm strings 6 .Nd print strings of printable characters in files 7 .Sh SYNOPSIS 8 .Nm 9 .Op Fl a 10 .Op Fl n Ar num 11 .Op Fl t Ar format 12 .Op Ar file ... 13 .Sh DESCRIPTION 14 .Nm 15 writes sequences of at least 4 printable characters in each 16 .Ar file 17 to stdout. 18 If no 19 .Ar file 20 is given, 21 .Nm 22 reads from stdin. 23 .Sh OPTIONS 24 .Bl -tag -width Ds 25 .It Fl a 26 Scan each 27 .Ar file 28 entirely. This is the default. 29 .It Fl n Ar num 30 Print sequences of at least 31 .Ar num 32 characters. The default is 4. 33 .It Fl t Ar format 34 Prepend each string with its byte offset, with 35 .Ar format 36 being one of 37 .Sy d , o , x 38 for decimal, octal or hexadecimal numbers. 39 .El 40 .Sh STANDARDS 41 The 42 .Nm 43 utility is compliant with the 44 .St -p1003.1-2013 45 specification. 46 .Pp 47 The 48 .Op Fl t 49 output format has been changed from "%F %s" to "%8lF: %s", with 50 .Sy F 51 being one of 52 .Sy d , o , x .