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In computer software, strings is a program in Unix-like operating systems that prints the strings found in an executable.
Common usage includes piping it to grep or redirecting the output to a file.
It is part of the GNU Binary Utilities (binutils), and has been ported to other operating systems including Microsoft Windows.
Example
$ strings foobar Qåtd /lib/ld-linux.so.2 _Jv_RegisterClasses __gmon_start__ libc.so.6 puts _IO_stdin_used __libc_start_main GLIBC_2.0 ...
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