[Cialug] strings(1)

[Dave Weis]

It may also be in unicode and strings is using ascii.

dave



On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 10:02 AM Tim Wilson <tim_linux at wilson-home.com>
wrote:

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