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==Overview==

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.
By default, it only prints the strings from the initialized and loaded sections of object files; for other types of files, it prints the strings from the whole file.
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It'''strings''' is part of the [[GNU Binary Utilities]] ({{mono|binutils}}), and has been ported to other operating systems including [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]].<ref>[[cygwin]]</ref>

==Example==