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Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

From: David T Harris (da465415pegasus.cc.ucf.edu)
Date: Sat Sep 01 2007 - 15:12:43 CDT


'strings' is a common Unix utility used
to find actual words or series of letters grouped together
in a file. You can run strings in binary executable
files to see any text embedded in the executable.

This can sometimes be used to find versions of
some executables as well as for other reasons (forensics ?).