EU-ELFCLASSIFY(1)

eu-elfclassify(1) — yes bestie, this is the manual page, and it's from elfutils 💖. Sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, because we're about to find out what kind of ELF file you're holding, and honestly? It's giving detective energy 🔍✨.

🌸 NAME 🌸

eu-elfclassify — figure out what type of ELF file something is 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

eu-elfclassify [--core]
        [--debug-only]
        [--elf]
        [--elf-archive]
        [--elf-file]
        [--executable]
        [--library]
        [--linux-kernel-module]
        [--loadable]
        [--program]
        [--shared]
        [--unstripped]
        [-f| --file]
        [--no-stdin]
        [--stdin]
        [--stdin0]
        [-z| --compressed]
        [--matching]
        [--no-print]
        [--not-matching]
        [--print]
        [--print0]
        [-q| --quiet]
        [-v| --verbose]
        [-?| --help]
        [--usage]
        [-V| --version]      elffile...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

eu-elfclassify identifies the primary purpose of a particular kind of ELF file or files. That's it, that's the whole job, and it eats every single time 🔥

👑 OPTIONS 👑

The long and short forms of options, shown here as alternatives, are equivalent. All of the classification options must apply at the same time to a particular file. And here's the slay: classification options can be negated using a --not- prefix 🪄

💖 Classification Options 💖

• --core — the file is an ELF core dump file 💀
• --debug-only — the file is a debug only ELF file (that means a separate .debug, .dwo or dwz multi-file) 🙈
• --elf — the file looks like an ELF object or archive/static library. this one is the default, no cap ✨
• --elf-archive — the file is an ELF archive or static library 📦
• --elf-file — the file is an regular ELF object (not an archive/static library) — so like, a real one, not a bundle 🎀
• --executable — the file is (primarily) an ELF program executable (not primarily a DS.O) 🏃
• --library — the file is an ELF shared object (DSO) (might also be an executable) 📚
• --linux-kernel-module — the file is a linux kernel module 🐧
• --loadable — the file is a loadable ELF object (program or shared object) 🫶
• --program — the file is an ELF program executable (might also be a DSO) ⭐
• --shared — the file is (primarily) an ELF shared object (DSO) (not primarily an executable) 🌈
• --unstripped — the file is an ELF file with symbol table or .debug_* sections and can be stripped further 🧚

🎀 Input flags 🎀

• -f, --file — only classify regular (not symlink nor special device) files. like, keep it normal please 💅
• --no-stdin — do not read files from standard input. this is the default 🙅
• --stdin — also read file names to process from standard input, separated by newlines 📥
• --stdin0 — also read file names to process from standard input, separated by ASCII NUL bytes 🫧
• -z, --compressed — try to open compressed files or embedded (kernel) ELF images 🗜️

💜 Output flags 💜

• --matching — if printing file names, print matching files. this is the default ✅
• --no-print — do not output file names 🤐
• --not-matching — if printing file names, print files that do not match 🙃
• --print — output names of files, separated by newline 📝
• --print0 — output names of files, separated by ASCII NUL 🫥

🌟 Additional flags 🌟

• -q, --quiet — suppress some error output (it's the counterpart to --verbose) 🤫
• -v, --verbose — output additional information (can be specified multiple times, so go off bestie) 🗣️
• -?, --help — give this help list 🆘
• --usage — give a short usage message 📋
• -V, --version — print program version 🏷️

💅 AUTHOR 💅

Written by Florian Wiemer. iconic behaviour, honestly 👑

🐛 REPORTING BUGS 🐛

Please reports bugs at <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> — tell them everything, they wanna know 💌

📜 COPYRIGHT 📜

Copyright © 2019 Red Hat Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. fr fr, no warranty, read it and weep 😭

elfutils · 2019-Aug-20 — that's the source and the date, bestie, and that's the whole page 🫶✨ bye now, go classify something 💖