Is there a Windows equivalent of the Unix "strings" command?
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in Unix and Linux extracts printable strings from a binary file. Is there a version of this for Windows? I couldn't find one.
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strings
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Not (AFAIK) built in, but there is one available from SysInternals (live link). The SysInternals strings isn't a straight port of the Unix tool; it was written to find Unicode strings as well as ASCII: Working on NT and Win2K means that executables …
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