NAME

       llvm-strings - print strings

SYNOPSIS

       llvm-strings [options] [input…]

DESCRIPTION

       llvm-strings  is  a  tool  intended as a drop-in replacement for GNU’s 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.

       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. If “-” is specified as an input, or no input is specified, the program  reads  from  the  standard
       input stream.

EXAMPLE

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

OPTIONS

       --all, -a
              Silently ignored. Present for GNU strings compatibility.

       --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.

       --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.

       @<FILE>
              Read command-line options from response file <FILE>.

EXIT STATUS

       llvm-strings exits with a non-zero exit code if there is an error.  Otherwise, it exits with code 0.

BUGS

       To report bugs, please visit <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/labels/tools:llvm-strings/>.

AUTHOR

       Maintained by the LLVM Team (https://llvm.org/).

COPYRIGHT

       2003-2023, LLVM Project