LLVM-STRINGS(1)                      LLVM                      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.

       --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>.

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://bugs.llvm.org/>.

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

COPYRIGHT
       2003-2021, LLVM Project

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