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 [-a] [-f offset] [-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:
| -a | Ascii-only search (Unicode and Ascii is default) |
| -b | Bytes of file to scan |
| -f | File offset at which to start scanning. |
| -o | Print offset in file string was located |
| -n | Minimum string length (default is 3) |
| -q | Quiet (no banner) |
| -s | Recurse subdirectories |
| -u | Unicode-only search (Unicode and Ascii is default) |
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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