LLVM-STRINGS(1)

🌈 print strings, but make it llvm-strings 🌈

okay bestie, welcome to the LLVM-STRINGS(1) manual page 💅 this tool is giving “tiny utility, main character energy,” and we’re gonna go through every single detail together. no cap. ✨

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🎀 NAME 🎀

llvm-strings — print strings, periodt.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

llvm-strings [options] [input…]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

llvm-strings is a tool intended as a drop-in replacement for GNU’s strings, bestie. It 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. that’s the whole vibe check 💖

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. iconic behavior, honestly. If - is specified as an input, or no input is specified, the program reads from the standard input stream. 🫶

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🍓 EXAMPLE 🍓

$ cat input.txt
bars
foo
wibble blob
$ llvm-strings input.txt
bars
wibble blob

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --all, -a — Silently ignored. Present for GNU strings compatibility. lowkey just vibing there 💀
• --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. your classic “help me help you” moment 💖
• --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. slay, now we know what’s running 👑
• @<FILE> — Read command-line options from response file <FILE>. fancy lil shortcut behavior 🎀

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💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

llvm-strings exits with a non-zero exit code if there is an error. Otherwise, it exits with code 0. simple, clean, no drama. 💅

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🙈 BUGS 🙈

To report bugs, please visit <https://bugs.llvm.org/>. bestie, don’t suffer in silence — tell the bug team. 🦋

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Maintained by the LLVM Team (https://llvm.org/). iconic maintenance behavior, ngl. 🌟

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

2003-2023, LLVM Project

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mwah 💋 okay that’s the whole LLVM-STRINGS(1) manual, bestie — footer tea: it says 13, the date is 2023-07-14, and the page itself is LLVM-STRINGS(1). byeee 💖✨