+Scan the whole file, regardless of what sections it contains or
+whether those sections are loaded or initialized. Normally this is
+the default behaviour, but strings can be configured so that the
+@option{-d} is the default instead.
+
+The @option{-} option is position dependent and forces strings to
+perform full scans of any file that is mentioned after the @option{-}
+on the command line, even if the @option{-d} option has been
+specified.
+
+@item -d
+@itemx --data
+Only print strings from initialized, loaded data sections in the
+file. This may reduce the amount of garbage in the output, but it
+also exposes the strings program to any security flaws that may be
+present in the BFD library used to scan and load sections. Strings
+can be configured so that this option is the default behaviour. In
+such cases the @option{-a} option can be used to avoid using the BFD
+library and instead just print all of the strings found in the file.