nvextract(1)

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💅 nvextract(1) — the girlies' guide to pulling sections out of object files

okay so bestie, welcome to nvextract(1), straight out of the General Commands Manual ✨ this is the NVIDIA object file section extraction tool, and she is lowkey iconic for one specific job. let's get into it 🎀

🦋 NAME

nvextract — the NVIDIA object file section extraction tool. that's literally her whole personality and she ate 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS

nvextract object [-name] .SECTION outputfile [option]...

🌸 DESCRIPTION

okay so picture this: nvextract reads an object or executable file and extracts the named section into an outputfile. that's the vibe. 🫶

and she's flexible — she can extract sections from ELF, COFF, or MACH-O object or executable files. no cap, all three. 🌈

what is she typically used for? mainly extracting compiler-generated informational sections that the NVIDIA compilers politely append to these files. so like, the extra lil goodies tacked onto the end. it's giving "finding the note your friend slipped into your notebook" 💌

💖 OPTIONS

  • -cz — decompress the section using ZLIB before writing the output file. unzip that lil present first, bestie 🎁
  • -coff | -mscoff — treat the file like a COFF object file.
  • -elf — treat the file like an ELF object file.
  • -help | -usage — give short usage information. a quick lil recap, we love her for that 🙈
  • -macho | -osx — treat the file like a Mach-O object file.
  • -q — don't print error messages. silence is golden, main character energy 💀
  • -xmltag tag — this prepends an XML open <tag> at the start of the output file, and appends the XML close </tag> at the end. wrapping it up all cute and tidy 🎀

🔥 DIAGNOSTICS

nvextract displays a message for switch errors, if the object file could not be opened, the output file could not be created, or the named section could not be found.

basically she will tell you what went wrong — unless you told her -q, in which case she's gonna stay mysterious about it 🤫

ngl bestie, if something isn't working and you're getting zero feedback, check whether you passed -q. she's not ignoring you on purpose, she's just literally not allowed to speak 😭

⭐ the sign-off

that's the whole page, babe! 🌸 this one's from the General Commands Manual, dated September 2026 — so she's fresh, she's cute, she's extracting sections. go forth and nvextract responsibly 💜✨

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