Strings v2.40
By Mark Russinovich
Introduction
Working on NT and Win2K means that executables and object files will many times have embedded UNICODE strings that you cannot easily see with a standard ASCII strings or grep programs. So we decided to roll our own. Strings just scans the file you pass it for UNICODE (or ASCII) strings of a default length of 3 or more UNICODE (or ASCII) characters. Note that it works under Windows 95 as well.
Usage: strings.exe [-a] [-b bytes] [-n length] [-o] [-q] [-s] [-u] <file or directory>
Strings takes wild-card expressions for file names, and additional command line parameters are defined as follows:
-s
Recurse subdirectories.
-o
Print offset in file string is located
-a
Scan for ASCII only
-u
Scan for UNICODE only
-b bytes
Bytes of file to scan.
-n X
Strings must be a minimum of X characters in length.
To search one or more files for the presence of a particular string using strings use a command like this:
strings * | findstr /i TextToSearchFor
