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Re: Command 'strings' reading (not) standard input

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From: janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com (Janis Papanagnou)
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Subject: Re: Command 'strings' reading (not) standard input
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 11:07:01 +0200
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by: Janis Papanagnou - Wed, 10 Aug 2022 09:07 UTC

On 09.08.2022 22:01, Keith Thompson wrote:
>
> But on my system, the strings command will read from stdin, though the
> synopsis on the man page doesn't directly say so:
>
> SYNOPSIS
> strings [-afovV] [-min-len]
> [SNIP]
> [--help] [--version] file...
>
> Using "file..." rather than "[file]..." implies that there must be at
> least one file name argument, but that appears to be inaccurate:
>
> $ echo hello | strings
> hello
> $
>
> The DESCRIPTION section does talk about strings reading from stdin (and
> changing behavior)

I focused on the syntax and the option description and missed that.
It works for me as well. - Thanks!

Janis

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Command 'strings' reading (not) standard input	Janis Papanagnou

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