Strings

This is a tool that is built into unix based systems to print the strings of printable characters in files or programs.. Used for information gathering while reverse engineering a file. Below I have supplied a link to a man page for the command along with usage of the tool.

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/11/strings-command-examples/
http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?strings