[Cialug] strings(1)

[Tim Wilson]

If the file has a data section, the default is to just scan that. You can
do strings-a to scan the entire file.

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 9:58 AM Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sometimes when I run 'strings' on a binary file I don't get back everything
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> I figured would be in the file. Sometimes there's text in a program that
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> strings doesn't find.
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> Why does some text show up as text in a binary file and some doesn't?
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> What's the high level explanation there?
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