ar

Create, modify, and extract from archives (.a, .so, .o). More information: <https://manned.org/ar>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/ar.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install binutils-i586-linux-gnu
Ubuntu
apt-get install binutils-2.26
Alpine
apk add binutils
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S aarch64-linux-gnu-binutils
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install binutils-x86-64-kfreebsd-gnu
CentOS
yum install binutils
Fedora
dnf install binutils-arc-linux-gnu
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install binutils-2.26
OS X
brew install binutils
Raspbian
apt-get install binutils-multiarch
Docker
docker run cmd.cat/ar ar powered by Commando

Create, modify, and extract from archives (.a, .so, .o). More information: <https://manned.org/ar>.

  • Extract all members from an archive:
    ar -x path/to/file.a
  • List the members of an archive:
    ar -t path/to/file.a
  • Replace or add files to an archive:
    ar -r path/to/file.a path/to/file1.o path/to/file2.o
  • Insert an object file index (equivalent to using `ranlib`):
    ar -s path/to/file.a
  • Create an archive with files and an accompanying object file index:
    ar -rs path/to/file.a path/to/file1.o path/to/file2.o

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