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Strings are recognized by looking for sequences of at least 4 (by default) printable characters terminating in a NUL character (that is, [[null-terminated string]]s). Some implementations provide options for determining what is recognized as a printable character, which is useful for finding non-ASCII and wide character text.

Common usage includes piping its output to <tt>{{mono|[[grep]]</tt>}} and <tt>{{mono|[[Fold (Unix)|fold]]</tt>}} or redirecting the output to a [[Computer file|file]].<ref>{{cite book

| last = Kiddle

| first = Oliver

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| url = https://www.apress.com/gp/book/9781590593769}}</ref>

It is part of the [[GNU Binary Utilities]] (<tt>{{mono|binutils</tt>}}), and has been ported to other operating systems including [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]].<ref>[[cygwin]]</ref>

==Example==