bstrings
bstrings is a command-line utility designed for extracting strings from files and directories during digital forensic investigations and malware analysis. The tool supports both ASCII and Unicode string extraction with configurable minimum and maximum length parameters. Users can process individual files or recursively scan entire directories with customizable chunk sizes ranging from 1 to 1024 MB. bstrings includes pattern matching capabilities through built-in regular expressions and supports custom regex patterns from external files. The utility allows filtering results by specific strings or patterns, making it useful for targeted analysis of binary files, executables, and other file formats. The tool provides quiet modes to reduce output verbosity and includes options to save results to external files. It offers flexible search parameters including character range specification and supports batch processing through file-based input lists.
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