Write out all possible encodings that strings can deal with for a given file.

stringsall.sh

#!/bin/sh
# Write out all possible encodings that strings can deal with for a given file.

input=$1

# 7 bit ascii
mode="s"
strings $@ -e $mode $input > strings_$input.$mode

# 8 bit characters
mode="S"
strings $@ -e $mode $input > strings_$input.$mode

# 16 bit big endian
mode="b"
strings $@ -e $mode $input > strings_$input.$mode

# 16 bit little endian
mode="l"
strings $@ -e $mode $input > strings_$input.$mode

# 32 bit big endian
mode="B"
strings $@ -e $mode $input > strings_$input.$mode

# 32 bit little endian
mode="L"
strings $@ -e $mode $input > strings_$input.$mode

ls -lh strings_$input.[sSbBlL]