AR(1) AR(1) NAME ar, ranlib - archive and library maintainer SYNOPSIS ar key [ posname ] afile [ file ... ] ranlib archive ... DESCRIPTION Ar maintains groups of files combined into a single archive file, afile. If it is not to be modified, the archive may be read from standard input, indicated by the name . The main use of a ar is to create and update library files for the loader ld(1). It can be used, though, for any similar pur- pose. Key is one character from the set drqtpmx, optionally con- catenated with one or more of vuaibcl. The files are con- stituents of the archive afile. The meanings of the key characters are: d Delete files from the archive file. r Replace files in the archive file. Optional modifiers are u Only replace files with modified dates later than that of the archive. a Place new files after posname in the archive rather than at the end. b or i Place new files before posname in the archive. q Quick. Append files to the end of the archive without checking for duplicates. Avoids quadratic behavior in `for i in *.o; do ar r lib.a $i; done'. t List a table of contents of the archive. If names are given, only those files are listed. p Print the named files in the archive. m Move the named files to the end or elsewhere, specified as with `r'. x Extract the named files. If no names are given, all files in the archive are extracted. In neither case does x alter the archive file. v Verbose. Give a file-by-file description of the making of a new archive file from the old archive and the AR(1) AR(1) constituent files. With p, precede each file with a name. With t, give a long listing of all information about the files, somewhat like a listing by ls(1), showing mode uid/gid size date name c Create. Normally ar will create a new archive when afile does not exist, and give a warning. Option c discards any old contents and suppresses the warning. l Local. Normally ar places its temporary files in the directory This option causes them to be placed in the local directory. Ranlib makes a table-of-contents file for each library archive. With this table the loader ld(1) will extract files as if it were repeatedly invoked until no more subroutines can be found. EXAMPLES ar cr lib.a *.o; ranlib lib.a Replace the contents of library `lib.a' with the object files in the current directory. pcat old.a.z | ar t - List the contents of an archived and compressed collec- tion of old files; see pack(1). FILES temporaries SEE ALSO ld(1), ar(5) BUGS If the same file is mentioned twice in an argument list, it may be put in the archive twice. Ld(1) warnings that a library is newer than its table of contents happen when a library is copied.