ar

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Create, modify, and extract from Unix archives. Typically used for static libraries (`.a`) and Debian packages (`.deb`). See also: `tar`.

Examples (5)

E[x]tract all members from an archive

ar x path/to/file.a

Lis[t] contents in a specific archive

ar t path/to/file.ar

[r]eplace or add specific files to an archive

ar r path/to/file.deb path/to/debian-binary path/to/control.tar.gz path/to/data.tar.xz ...

In[s]ert an object file index (equivalent to using `ranlib`)

ar s path/to/file.a

Create an archive with specific files and an accompanying object file index

ar rs path/to/file.a path/to/file1.o path/to/file2.o ...