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James Henderson 96774e78a8 [docs][llvm-strings] Clarify "printable character" wording
The --bytes option uses the phrase "printable ASCII characters", but the
description section used simply "printable characters". To avoid any
confusion about locale impacts etc, this change adopts the former's
phrasing in both places. It also fixes a minor grammar issue in the
description.

Reviewed by: MaskRay

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D68016

llvm-svn: 372865
2019-09-25 13:09:17 +00:00

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llvm-strings - print strings
============================
.. program:: llvm-strings
SYNOPSIS
--------
:program:`llvm-strings` [*options*] [*input...*]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
: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.
EXAMPLE
-------
.. code-block:: console
$ cat input.txt
bars
foo
wibble blob
$ llvm-strings input.txt
bars
wibble blob
OPTIONS
-------
.. 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>``.
EXIT STATUS
-----------
:program:`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 <http://llvm.org/bugs/>.