When passing an executable file as an argument to strings it will
attempt to parse its headers in order to only look for strings in the
"appropriate" sections. As I don't have direct access to a Lion machine
I have not been able to perform a deep analysis but it appears that on
Lion the "current" version of XCode produces Mach-O headers that are
incompatible with Lion's "current" version of strings. By cat:ing the
binary and filtering it through strings the header parsing is bypassed
and all goes well.
Without this patch the following error message is produced:
When passing an executable file as an argument to
stringsit will attempt to parse its headers in order to only look for strings in the "appropriate" sections. As I don't have direct access to a Lion machine I have not been able to perform a deep analysis but it appears that on Lion the "current" version of XCode produces Mach-O headers that are incompatible with Lion's "current" version ofstrings. By cat:ing the binary and filtering it throughstringsthe header parsing is bypassed and all goes well.Without this patch the following error message is produced: