Question

i’m looking for an alternative to wyd 0.2 that can extract strings from any type of file it comes across.

thanks =)

Answer 1

strings

/*padding because i need 15 chars*/

edit There is a program called strings in every *nix out there, since the late ’80s, which does just that. You can log in to any *nix out there, and type man strings to get more info. Or you could type strings -h showing something along the lines of

Usage: strings [option(s)] [file(s)]
Display printable strings in [file(s)] (stdin by default)
The options are:
-a - --all                Scan the entire file, not just the data section
-f --print-file-name      Print the name of the file before each string
-n --bytes=[number]       Locate & print any NUL-terminated sequence of at
-<number>                 least [number] characters (default 4).
-t --radix={o,d,x}        Print the location of the string in base 8, 10 or 16
-o                        An alias for --radix=o
-T --target=<BFDNAME>     Specify the binary file format
-e --encoding={s,S,b,l,B,L} Select character size and endianness:
                        s = 7-bit, S = 8-bit, {b,l} = 16-bit, {B,L} = 32-bit
@<file>                   Read options from <file>
-h --help                 Display this information
-v --version              Print the program's version number

which are then options you can pass to strings, to alter it’s behavior.