Comments on Linux strings Command Tutorial for Beginners (5 Examples)

Looking inside a binary/executable file to grab human-readable strings isn't the kind of work that everybody does, but what if you are asked to do this? Opening the file in an editor, and manually looking for stuff isn't an elegant solution. So, what to do? Yes, you guessed it right - there exists a command line utility that does this for you.

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By: Rohit Bruder

Ur nice oida

By: zmitchell

Will it scan .exe files?

By: Aj

We don't have .exe on unix.

It does scan binary files.