ar

Create, modify, and extract from archives (.a, .so, .o).

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• 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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