Printing string pointed to from Register in GDB

Question

I have a string being moved and i want to print it based on the register.

I did the following:

gdb x $esp
0xbffff110:  "\274\205\004\b\324\361\377\277\334\361\377\277]\257\344\267\304s\374\267"

{then I copied the address}

>> x *0xbffff110
0x80485bc <__dso_handle+12>:     "test1"

Is there any way to do this in one step?

Answer 1

Is there any way to do this in one step?

 (gdb) print *(char**)$esp