A better strings utility!

Edit Package bstrings

FOR NOW THIS IS A WINDOWS .NET APP ONLY

Provides functionality close to strings, but has additional integrated functions including search capability.

Looking for an exported symbol in collection of libraries. bstring can help.

https://github.com/EricZimmerman/bstrings

a If set, look for ASCII strings. Default is true. Use -a false to disable
b Chunk size in MB. Valid range is 1 to 1024. Default is 512
d Directory to recursively process. Either this or -f is required
f File to search. Either this or -d is required
m Minimum string length. Default is 3
o File to save results to
p Display list of built in regular expressions
q Quiet mode (Do not show header or total number of hits)
u If set, look for Unicode strings. Default is true. Use -u false to disable
x Maximum string length. Default is unlimited
ls String to look for. When set, only matching strings are returned.
ar Range of characters to search for in 'Codepage' strings. Default is [\x20 -\x7E]
ur Range of characters to search for in Unicode strings. Default is [\u0020-\u007E]
cp Codepage to use. Default is 1252.
mask When using -d, file mask to search for. * and ? are supported.
lr Regex to look for. When set, only matching strings are returned.
sa Sort results alphabetically
sl Sort results by length

Examples:
bstrings.exe -f "C:\Temp\UsrClass 1.dat" --ls URL
bstrings.exe -f "C:\Temp\someFile.txt" --lr guid
bstrings.exe -d "C:\Temp" --mask "*.dll"
bstrings.exe -d "C:\Temp" --ar "[\x20-\x37]"
bstrings.exe -d "C:\Temp" --cp 10007
bstrings.exe -d "C:\Temp" --ls test
bstrings.exe -f "C:\Temp\someOtherFile.txt" --lr cc -sa
bstrings.exe -f "C:\Temp\someOtherFile.txt" --lr cc -sa -m 15 -x 22
bstrings.exe -f "C:\Temp\UsrClass 1.dat" --ls mui -sl

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Greg Freemyer's avatar Greg Freemyer (gregfreemyer) committed (revision 1)
Add the source code, but this may not ever build on OBS
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