EMAR(1)

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💖 EMAR 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is emar — the emscripten archiver for WASM and JavaScript, and it's basically doing the same job as ar or llvm-ar but for our web-assembly girlies. same manual page name (EMAR(1)), same energy, way more sparkle. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

emar — emscripten archiver for WASM and JavaScript like ar or llvm-ar 🦋

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

👑 OVERVIEW

LLVM Archiver. that's it, that's the vibe. no cap.

🫶 USAGE

okay so this is the shape of every call, and you gotta respect the shape:

llvm-ar-21 [options] [-]<operation>[modifiers] [relpos] [count] <archive> [files]

and then there's this whole other mode where you feed it an MRI script through stdin:

llvm-ar-21 -M [< mri-script]

like, iconic. she contains multitudes. ✨

🍓 OPTIONS

one bullet per flag because we do not skip, we do not summarise, we list all of them fr fr 🎀

  • --format — which archive format you wanna create, bestie. pick your fighter:
    • =default — default 💜
    • =gnu — gnu
    • =darwin — darwin
    • =bsd — bsd
    • =bigarchive — big archive (AIX OS) — yeah it got big, good for her 🌸
    • =coff — coff
  • --plugin=<string> — ignored for compatibility. she's just there for the vibes, she doesn't do anything. it's giving "group project member who did nothing" 😭
  • -h, --help — display this help and exit. the classic. 💅
  • --output — the directory to extract archive members to 📁
  • --rsp-quoting — quoting style for response files. window dressing, choose your dialect:
    • =posix — posix
    • =windows — windows
  • --thin — create a thin archive 🦋 (she's ✨slender✨)
  • --version — print the version and exit
  • -X{32|64|32_64|any} — object mode (only for AIX OS) 👑
  • @<file> — read options from <file> 📄

🌈 OPERATIONS

every archive needs a main character moment and that's this single letter. here's the whole cast:

  • d — delete [files] from the archive 💀
  • m — move [files] in the archive 🚚
  • p — print contents of [files] found in the archive 🖨️
  • q — quick append [files] to the archive ⚡
  • r — replace or insert [files] into the archive 🔁
  • s — act as ranlib 🧚
  • t — display list of files in archive 📜
  • x — extract [files] from the archive 📤

🧚 MODIFIERS

sprinkle these onto your operation like glitter, bestie. they change the whole mood ✨

  • [a] — put [files] after [relpos] ➡️
  • [b] — put [files] before [relpos] (same as [i]) ⬅️
  • [c] — do not warn if archive had to be created 🤫
  • [D] — use zero for timestamps and uids/gids (default) 🕛
  • [h] — display this help and exit
  • [i] — put [files] before [relpos] (same as [b]) ⬅️
  • [l] — ignored for compatibility. again just vibes, no function 🙈
  • [L] — add archive's contents
  • [N] — use instance [count] of name 🔢
  • [o] — preserve original dates 📅
  • [O] — display member offsets 📍
  • [P] — use full names when matching (implied for thin archives) 🔍
  • [s] — create an archive index (cf. ranlib) 🗂️
  • [S] — do not build a symbol table 🚫
  • [T] — deprecated, use --thin instead. she's retiring bestie, let her go 😭
  • [u] — update only [files] newer than archive contents 🆕
  • [U] — use actual timestamps and uids/gids ⏰
  • [v] — be verbose about actions taken 🗣️
  • [V] — display the version and exit
💖 friendly reminder bestie: [D] (zeroed timestamps/uids/gids) is the default, and if you want the actual ones you reach for [U]. also [T] is deprecated — use --thin instead, no cap. 🙏

and that's the whole page, you ate that. this was emar, version 6.0.5+dfsg+~1.41.5, coming to you from August 2026 — go forth and archive, my love, ily 🫶✨💜

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