COBFUSC(1)

✨ NAME ✨

bestie, this is cobfusc — make a C source file unreadable but compilable. the header vibes are UNTITLED(), LOCAL, UNTITLED(), so the manual name is folded in right here, periodt. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

cobfusc [-AabdemntxV] [-c case] [-f suffix] [-g file] [-i idobf]
        [-o file] [-p prefix] [-r file] [-s seed] [-u file] [-w cols]
        [-z file] [file ...]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so real talk: this doc is only a brief description of cobfusc. for the full lore, please read the Info file or the Texinfo manual, bestie. 📚

the cobfusc utility converts the input file, written in the C language, into a human unreadable one, but compilable. the main work is converting every identifier into a meaningless one, removing any comment and compacting all the white-spaces when they are not required. it’s giving chaos but make it compile. 😭✨

the options are as follows:

• -A — Enable a heavy obfuscation for the source file. This is equivalent to the -ademt -i numeric options. The digraphize option is not enabled by default since the Amendement 1 (1994) changes to ANSI X3.159-1989 (“ANSI C89”) are supported only by few C compilers.

ngl, that Amendement spelling is exactly what the page says. also, digraphize is not on by default because only a few C compilers support those changes. 💀

• -a — Garble every string with octal escapes.
• -b — Enable the digraphize mode.
• -c — Set the identifier case obfuscation mode. values: no | lower | upper | screw | random.
• -d — Compact the macros removing backslashes and white-spaces when they are not required.
• -e — Compact the white-spaces when they are not required.
• -f suffix — Put the output of each processed file in a separate file with suffix appended to file name instead of standard output. This is useful when processing a package with a lot of source files.
• -g file — Add first the identifiers contained in file to the obfuscation table. Useful when those identifiers are shared between two or more source files.
• -i — Set the identifier obfuscation mode. values: no | numeric | word | random.
• -m — Strip the comments.
• -n — Garble integers with expressions.
• -o file — Set the output destination to file.
• -p prefix — Specify the prefix to use when generating the identifiers.
• -r file — Tell cobfusc that the identifiers contained in file must not be obfuscated.
• -s seed — Specify the seed for generating the random numbers.
• -t — Enable the trigraphize mode.
• -u — Dump the symbol table to file. (synopsis shows -u file, iykyk.)
• -V — Print version information on standard output then exit.
• -w — Set the width limit of the output. (synopsis calls the argument cols.)
• -x — Exclusive mode; obfuscate only the identifiers specified by the -g and -z parameters.
• -z file — Add the identifiers pairs contained in file to the obfuscation table.

🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

• cunloop(1)
• indent(1)

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Sandro Sigala <sandro@sigala.it> 💖

kisses bestie, this page is from Debian, dated July 1, 2001, and it’s COBFUSC(1). bye! 🫶✨