Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 4 - USING BINUTILS Using Instructions page 13

Chapter 2. ar
comments are allowed; text after either of the characters
•
Whenever you use a list of names as part of the argument to an
•
individual names with either commas or blanks. Commas are shown in the explanations below, for
clarity.
is used as a line continuation character; if
• +
line is considered part of the current command.
Here are the commands you can use in
special significance:
or specify a current archive, which is a temporary file required for most of the other
OPEN CREATE
commands.
commits the changes so far specified by the script. Prior to
SAVE
temporary copy of the current archive.
ADDLIB
archive
ADDLIB (
archive
Add all the contents of
current archive.
Requires prior use of
ADDMOD ,
member member
Add each named
Requires prior use of
CLEAR
Discard the contents of the current archive, canceling the effect of any operations since the last
. May be executed (with no effect) even if no current archive is specified.
SAVE
CREATE
archive
Creates an archive, and makes it the current archive (required for many other commands). The
new archive is created with a temporary name; it is not actually saved as
use . You can overwrite existing archives; similarly, the contents of any existing file named
SAVE
will not be destroyed until
archive
DELETE ,
module module
Delete each listed
.
module
Requires prior use of
DIRECTORY
archive
DIRECTORY
archive
List each named
form of the output: when verbose output is off, output is like that of
When verbose output is on, the listing is like
Output normally goes to the standard output stream; however, if you specify
final argument,
ar
, , ...
module module
(or, if specified, each named
archive
or
OPEN CREATE
, ...
member
as a module in the current archive.
member
or
OPEN CREATE
, ...
module
from the current archive; equivalent to
module
or
OPEN CREATE
( , ...
module module
( , ...
module module
present in
module
directs the output to that file.
ar
or
*
appears at the end of a line, the text on the following
+
scripts, or when using
)
module
.
.
.
SAVE
.
)
)
outputfile
. The separate command
archive
ar -tv
archive module
is ignored.
;
command, you can separate the
ar
interactively. Three of them have
ar
, commands affect only the
SAVE
from
module archive
archive
ar -d
archive module
VERBOSE
ar -t
archive module
.
...
outputfile
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) to the
until you
...
specifies the
.
...
as a