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 for-
mat, 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
2003-2023, LLVM Project
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