dltest(1)

💖 dltest — the manual page, bestie edition 💖

okay so like. this is dltest, from the unixODBC manual pages, and she is a simple library symbol test program. short. sweet. does exactly one thing. main character energy but make it tiny. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

dltest — a simple library symbol test program 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

dltest [ library symbol ]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so here's the tea, bestie. dltest is a simple program that figures out whether a symbol actually appears in a (shared object) library. that's it. that's the whole job. no cap. 💅

⚠️ important: the name of the library must be prefixed by a full system path. like, the whole thing. don't be cute about it, don't pass a bare filename, give her the full path. periodt.

and if you're the kind of girlie who just runs it with no parameters at all? no shade, we've all been there. in that case dltest prints a short help message. she's polite like that. 🫶

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

say you wanna determine if the symbol printf is found in libc-2.18.so. literally just run:

$ dltest /usr/lib/libc-2.18.so printf

and that's it. iconic. she'll tell you. 💀✨

👑 AUTHORS 👑

the authors of unixODBC are:

• Peter Harvey <pharvey@codebydesign.com> 🎀
• Nick Gorham <nick@lurcher.org> 🦋

for a full list of contributors, refer to the AUTHORS file. yes, the whole list, they're all in there, go give them their flowers. 💐

🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

unixODBC is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License. for details about the license, see the COPYING file. ngl, read it, it's giving legally important. 😭

okay bye bestie!! this was dltest from version 2.3.12, dated Thu 07 Jan 2021. mwah, slay, go test some symbols 💅💖🌸🦋