Strings v2.41

By Mark Russinovich

Published: March 2, 2009

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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.

Using Strings

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

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Runs on:

Client: Windows XP and higher.
Server: Windows Server 2003 and higher.