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ksherlockyesterday at 3:10 PM1 replyview on HN

By default, strings needs a run of 4+ (printable|ascii) characters. This sounds like it was 1 ascii character at a time in a sea of random data (with other alpha chars removed).


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Crestwaveyesterday at 11:23 PM

Ah, right. It would have to be `strings -n 1`, then.