STRINGS(1)

📦 version 1.053, in alpine 3.24

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so this is STRINGS(1) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it's giving extract strings energy: the command is strings, and its whole thing is extracting strings. periodt. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

run it like this, bestie:

strings [-afo] [-n length] [-t {d|o|x}] [file ...]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

strings prints strings gleaned from the given files (or from standard input.) By default, strings of less than 4 characters are ignored. A string is considered to be any sequence of graphical ASCII characters (plus space and tab). slay. ✨

🎀 Options 🎀

  • -f — print the file name with each string. name-drop the file, iconic.
  • -n length — set the minimum length of strings to print; 4 by default. short strings need not apply unless you say so.
  • -o — print each string with the octal offset in the file. (Same as -to.) 🦋
  • -t {d|o|x} — print each string with the offset in the file; specify decimal, octal or hexadecimal respectively. pick your offset flavor: d, o, or x.
  • -a — included for compatibility with older versions but does nothing. not me finding out this flag is literally just vibes 💀

💀 BUGS 💀

bestie, the bugs section is straight-up poetry. no cap. it says:

Things are seldom what they seem,
Skim milk masquerades as cream;
Highlows pass as patent leathers;
Jackdaws strut in peacock's feathers.

💖 that's the whole page, signed off by perl v5.42.2 on 2026-02-15 — bye bestie, go extract those strings 🫶✨

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