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The command searches for sequences of printable characters that end with a [[null-terminated string|NUL character]] but ignores any sequence that is less than a specified length or 4 characters by default. 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 selects strings from the initialized and loaded sections of an object file. For other types of files, it selects strings from the whole file.
 
The command is available in [[Unix]], [[Plan 9 from Bell Labs|Plan 9]], [[Inferno (operating system)|Inferno]], and [[Unix-like]] systems. It is part of the [[GNU Binary Utilities]] ({{mono|binutils}}), and has been implemented toin other operating systems including [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]].<ref>[[cygwin]]</ref>
 
==Example==