Strings

Introduction

Working on NT and Win2K means that executables and object files will many times have embedded UNICODE strings that you cannot easily see with a standard ASCII strings or grep programs. So we decided to roll our own. Strings just scans the file you pass it for UNICODE (or ASCII) strings of a default length of 3 or more UNICODE (or ASCII) characters. Note that it works under Windows 95 as well.

Usage: strings [-s] [-o] [-a] [-u] [-n X] <file or directory>

Strings takes wild-card expressions for file names, and additional command line parameters are defined as follows:

-s

Recurse subdirectories.

-o

Print offset in file string is located

-a

Scan for ASCII only

-u

Scan for UNICODE only

-n X

Strings must be a minimum of X characters in length.

To search one or more files for the presence of a particular string using strings use a command like this:

strings * | findstr /i TextToSearchFor

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