LLVM-STRINGS(1)

NAME
llvm-strings - print strings

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

llvm-strings is a tool intended as a drop-in replacement for GNU's 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.

EXAMPLE

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

OPTIONS

--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.

--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>.

EXIT STATUS

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

BUGS

To report bugs, please visit <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/labels/tools:llvm-strings/>.

AUTHOR
Maintained by the LLVM Team (https://llvm.org/).

COPYRIGHT
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