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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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