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Unicode

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 03, 2006 01:56 AM

It's Unicode. You have to strip out the NULLs first, or strings won't detect anything:

tr -d \\0 word.doc | strings | less

(Note the '' - tr always operates on standard input, not a file.)

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