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llvm-strings - print strings

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llvm-strings [options] [input...]

llvm-strings is a tool intended as a drop-in replacement for GNUaqs strings, which looks for printable strings in files and writes them to the standard output stream. A printable string is any sequence of four (by default) or more printable ASCII characters. The end of the file, or any other byte, terminates the current sequence.

llvm-strings looks for strings in each input file specified. Unlike GNU strings it looks in the entire input file, regardless of file format, rather than restricting the search to certain sections of object files. If "-" is specified as an input, or no input is specified, the program reads from the standard input stream.

$ cat input.txt
bars
foo
wibble blob
$ llvm-strings input.txt
bars
wibble blob

--all, -a	Silently ignored. Present for GNU strings compatibility.

--bytes=<length>, -n
	Set the minimum number of printable ASCII characters required for a sequence of bytes to be considered a string. The default value is 4.

--help, -h	Display a summary of command line options.

--help-list
	Display an uncategorized summary of command line options.

--print-file-name, -f
	Display the name of the containing file before each string. Example: $ llvm-strings --print-file-name test.o test.elf test.o: _Z5hellov test.o: some_bss test.o: test.cpp test.o: main test.elf: test.cpp test.elf: test2.cpp test.elf: _Z5hellov test.elf: main test.elf: some_bss

--radix=<radix>, -t
	Display the offset within the file of each string, before the string and using the specified radix. Valid <radix> values are o, d and x for octal, decimal and hexadecimal respectively. Example: $ llvm-strings --radix=o test.o 1054 _Z5hellov 1066 .rela.text 1101 .comment 1112 some_bss 1123 .bss 1130 test.cpp 1141 main $ llvm-strings --radix=d test.o 556 _Z5hellov 566 .rela.text 577 .comment 586 some_bss 595 .bss 600 test.cpp 609 main $ llvm-strings -t x test.o 22c _Z5hellov 236 .rela.text 241 .comment 24a some_bss 253 .bss 258 test.cpp 261 main

--version
	Display the version of the llvm-strings executable.

@<FILE>	Read command-line options from response file <FILE>amp;.

llvm-strings exits with a non-zero exit code if there is an error. Otherwise, it exits with code 0.

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