.. program:: llvm-strings
:program:`llvm-strings` [options] [input...]
:program:`llvm-strings` is a tool intended as a drop-in replacement for GNU's :program:`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.
:program:`llvm-strings` looks for strings in each input file specified. Unlike GNU :program:`strings` it looks in the entire input file, regardless of file format, 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.
$ cat input.txtbarsfoowibble blob $ llvm-strings input.txtbarswibble blob.. option:: --all, -a Silently ignored. Present for GNU :program:`strings` compatibility.
.. option:: --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.
.. option:: --help, -h Display a summary of command line options.
.. option:: --help-list Display an uncategorized summary of command line options.
.. option:: --print-file-name, -f Display the name of the containing file before each string. Example: .. code-block:: console $ 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
.. option:: --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: .. code-block:: console $ 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
.. option:: --version Display the version of the :program:`llvm-strings` executable.
.. option:: @<FILE> Read command-line options from response file ``<FILE>``.
:program:`llvm-strings` exits with a non-zero exit code if there is an error. Otherwise, it exits with code 0.
To report bugs, please visit <https://bugs.llvm.org/>.
