BRANDELF(1)

📦 version 15.1, in freebsd 14.5, freebsd 15.1

💅 brandelf(1) — General Commands Manual 💅

Okay bestie, welcome to the brandelf(1) manpage. This is literally the glow-up your ELF binaries didn't know they needed. Let's get into it. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

brandelf — mark an ELF binary for a specific ABI. That's the whole thing. It's giving tiny tool, huge main character energy. 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

brandelf [-lv] [-f ELF_ABI_number] [-t string] file ...

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

Okay so the brandelf utility marks an ELF binary to be run under a certain ABI for FreeBSD. That's the vibe. Now the options, because they all matter and we're not skipping any:

  • -f ELF_ABI_number — Forces branding with the supplied ELF ABI number. Incompatible with the -t option. These values are assigned by SCO/USL. Don't mix them up, bestie. 🚫
  • -l — Writes the list of all known ELF types to the standard error. Lowkey useful for a vibe check. 👀
  • -v — Turns on verbose output. Because sometimes you need the whole story. 🗣️
  • -t string — Brands the given ELF binaries to be of the string ABI type. Currently supported ABIs are “FreeBSD”, “Linux”, and “SVR4”. Those are your only choices, no cap. 💅
  • file — If -t string is given it will brand file to be of type string. Otherwise it will simply display the branding of file. So it's either a makeover or a mirror. 🪞

🎀 EXIT STATUS 🎀

Exit status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command fails. It fails if a file does not exist, is too short, fails to brand properly, or the brand requested is not one of the known types and the -f option is not set. So basically, if anything's off, you get a 1. No in-between. 💀

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

Here's a typical usage moment, bestie. The following is an example of a typical usage of the brandelf command:

brandelf file
brandelf -t Linux file

First one shows you the brand, second one slaps the Linux brand on it. Simple. Iconic. Periodt. 🔥

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc., System V Application Binary Interface, http://www.sco.com/developers/devspecs/, April 29, 1998 (DRAFT). Iykyk. 📚

🦋 HISTORY 🦋

The brandelf manual page first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2. Been serving looks since the 90s. 👑

💖 AUTHORS 💖

This manual page was written by John-Mark Gurney <jmg@FreeBSD.org>. Slay. 🫶

💅 This page is from Debian, dated March 25, 2014. Stay slaying, bestie! 💖

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