How I can find function in shared object files using objdump and bash functions in linux?

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G-71 picture G-71 · Feb 20, 2012 · Viewed 30.8k times · Source

I've got a folder in linux, which is contained several shared object files (*.so). How I can find function in shared object files using objdump and bash functions in linux?

For instance, the following example is found me function func1 in mylib.so:

objdump -d mylib.so | grep func1

But i want to find func1 in folder which is contained shared object files. I don't know bash language and how to combinate linux terminal commands.

Answer

ugoren picture ugoren · Feb 20, 2012

nm is simpler than objdump, for this task.
nm -A *.so | grep func should work. The -A flag tells nm to print the file name.

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