Examples

Consider an archive, test.a, containing the following ELF files:

bmw.o
bmw1.o
call_c_code.o
newtst.o
shapes.o
strmtst.o

Example of processing all files in the archive

This example removes all debug, comments, notes and symbols from all the files in the archive:

fromelf --elf --strip=all test.a -o strip_all/

This creates an output archive with the name test.a in the subdirectory strip_all

Example of processing a subset of files in the archive

To remove all debug, comments, notes and symbols from only the shapes.o and the strmtst.o files in the archive, enter:

fromelf --elf --strip=all test.a(s*.o) -o subset/

This creates an output archive with the name test.a in the subdirectory subset. The archive contains the processed files together with the remaining files that are unprocessed.

To process the bmw.o, bmw1.o, and newtst.o files in the archive, enter:

fromelf --elf --strip=all test.a(??w*) -o subset/

Example of displaying a disassembled version of files in an archive

To display the disassembled version of call_c_code.o in the archive, enter:

fromelf --disassemble test.a(c*)