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jonhohle on Nov 11, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: All the data can be yours: reverse engineering API...

`strings` is the Unix command line utility[0] of the same name.

  strings file

will tell you all of the ASCII strings in file.

0 - https://www.unix.com/man-page/osx/1/strings/

poincaredisk on Nov 11, 2024 [–]

    strings -el

For utf-16 encoded ascii strings (very useful when dealing with windows executables).

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