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AR(1) | GNU Development Tools | AR(1) |
NAME
ar - create, modify, and extract from archivesSYNOPSIS
ar [ -X32_64] [-]p[mod] [--plugin name] [--target bfdname] [--output dirname] [--record-libdeps libdeps] [--thin] [relpos] [count] archive [member...]DESCRIPTION
The GNU ar program creates, modifies, and extracts from archives. An archive is a single file holding a collection of other files in a structure that makes it possible to retrieve the original individual files (called members of the archive).OPTIONS
GNU ar allows you to mix the operation code p and modifier flags mod in any order, within the first command-line argument.- d
-
Delete modules from the archive. Specify the names of modules to be deleted as member...; the archive is untouched if you specify no files to delete.
- m
-
Use this operation to move members in an archive.
- p
-
Print the specified members of the archive, to the standard output file. If the v modifier is specified, show the member name before copying its contents to standard output.
- q
-
Quick append; Historically, add the files member... to the end of archive, without checking for replacement.
- r
-
Insert the files member... into archive (with replacement). This operation differs from q in that any previously existing members are deleted if their names match those being added.
- s
- Add an index to the archive, or update it if it already exists. Note this command is an exception to the rule that there can only be one command letter, as it is possible to use it as either a command or a modifier. In either case it does the same thing.
- t
-
Display a table listing the contents of archive, or those of the files listed in member... that are present in the archive. Normally only the member name is shown, but if the modifier O is specified, then the corresponding offset of the member is also displayed. Finally, in order to see the modes (permissions), timestamp, owner, group, and size the v modifier should be included.
- x
-
Extract members (named member) from the archive. You can use the v modifier with this operation, to request that ar list each name as it extracts it.
- a
- Add new files after an existing member of the archive. If you use the modifier a, the name of an existing archive member must be present as the relpos argument, before the archive specification.
- b
- Add new files before an existing member of the archive. If you use the modifier b, the name of an existing archive member must be present as the relpos argument, before the archive specification. (same as i).
- c
- Create the archive. The specified archive is always created if it did not exist, when you request an update. But a warning is issued unless you specify in advance that you expect to create it, by using this modifier.
- D
-
Operate in deterministic mode. When adding files and the archive index use zero for UIDs, GIDs, timestamps, and use consistent file modes for all files. When this option is used, if ar is used with identical options and identical input files, multiple runs will create identical output files regardless of the input files' owners, groups, file modes, or modification times.
- f
- Truncate names in the archive. GNU ar will normally permit file names of any length. This will cause it to create archives which are not compatible with the native ar program on some systems. If this is a concern, the f modifier may be used to truncate file names when putting them in the archive.
- i
- Insert new files before an existing member of the archive. If you use the modifier i, the name of an existing archive member must be present as the relpos argument, before the archive specification. (same as b).
- l
- Specify dependencies of this library. The dependencies must immediately follow this option character, must use the same syntax as the linker command line, and must be specified within a single argument. I.e., if multiple items are needed, they must be quoted to form a single command line argument. For example l "-L/usr/local/lib -lmydep1 -lmydep2"
- N
- Uses the count parameter. This is used if there are multiple entries in the archive with the same name. Extract or delete instance count of the given name from the archive.
- o
- Preserve the original dates of members when extracting them. If you do not specify this modifier, files extracted from the archive are stamped with the time of extraction.
- O
- Display member offsets inside the archive. Use together with the t option.
- P
-
Use the full path name when matching or storing names in the archive. Archives created with full path names are not POSIX compliant, and thus may not work with tools other than up to date GNU tools. Modifying such archives with GNU ar without using P will remove the full path names unless the archive is a thin archive. Note that P may be useful when adding files to a thin archive since r without P ignores the path when choosing which element to replace. Thus
ar rcST archive.a subdir/file1 subdir/file2 file1
- s
- Write an object-file index into the archive, or update an existing one, even if no other change is made to the archive. You may use this modifier flag either with any operation, or alone. Running ar s on an archive is equivalent to running ranlib on it.
- S
- Do not generate an archive symbol table. This can speed up building a large library in several steps. The resulting archive can not be used with the linker. In order to build a symbol table, you must omit the S modifier on the last execution of ar, or you must run ranlib on the archive.
- T
- Deprecated alias for --thin. T is not recommended because in many ar implementations T has a different meaning, as specified by X/Open System Interface.
- u
-
Normally, ar r... inserts all files listed into the archive. If you would like to insert only those of the files you list that are newer than existing members of the same names, use this modifier. The u modifier is allowed only for the operation r (replace). In particular, the combination qu is not allowed, since checking the timestamps would lose any speed advantage from the operation q.
- U
-
Do not operate in deterministic mode. This is the inverse of the D modifier, above: added files and the archive index will get their actual UID, GID, timestamp, and file mode values.
- v
- This modifier requests the verbose version of an operation. Many operations display additional information, such as filenames processed, when the modifier v is appended.
- V
- This modifier shows the version number of ar.
- --help
- Displays the list of command-line options supported by ar and then exits.
- --version
- Displays the version information of ar and then exits.
- -X32_64
- ar ignores an initial option spelled -X32_64, for compatibility with AIX. The behaviour produced by this option is the default for GNU ar. ar does not support any of the other -X options; in particular, it does not support -X32 which is the default for AIX ar.
- --plugin name
-
The optional command-line switch --plugin name causes ar to load the plugin called name which adds support for more file formats, including object files with link-time optimization information.
- --target target
- The optional command-line switch --target bfdname specifies that the archive members are in an object code format different from your system's default format. See
- --output dirname
-
The --output option can be used to specify a path to a directory into which archive members should be extracted. If this option is not specified then the current directory will be used.
- --record-libdeps libdeps
- The --record-libdeps option is identical to the l modifier, just handled in long form.
- --thin
- Make the specified archive a thin archive. If it already exists and is a regular archive, the existing members must be present in the same directory as archive.
- @file
-
Read command-line options from file. The options read are inserted in place of the original @ file option. If file does not exist, or cannot be read, then the option will be treated literally, and not removed.
SEE ALSO
nm(1), ranlib(1), and the Info entries for binutils.COPYRIGHT
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