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LLVM-STRINGS(1) 		      LLVM			 LLVM-STRINGS(1)

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.   Other-
     wise, 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
     2003-2026, LLVM Project

19				   2026-07-30			 LLVM-STRINGS(1)

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