pestr(1)

pestr1

Search strings in pe files

Usage

pestr [OPTIONS] ... pefile

Overview

pestr search for ASCII and Unicode strings in PE files. It's part of pev, the PE file analysis toolkit.

pefile is a PE32/PE32+ executable or dynamic linked library file.

Options

-n, --min-length

Set minimum string length (default: 4).

-o, --offset

Show string offset in file.

-s, --section

Show string section, if exists.

-V, --version

Show version.

--help

Show help.

Examples

Search all strings in putty.exe:

$ pestr putty.exe

Releases

4 releases since Debian 10 (Buster); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 10
  2. 11–12
  3. 13

--section since Debian 11 (Bullseye); -s since Debian 11 (Bullseye).

Reporting bugs

Please, check the latest development code and report at https://github.com/mentebinaria/readpe/issues

From readpe 0.84-2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.