How to read and execute GDB commands from a file?

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URL87 picture URL87 · Jan 9, 2013 · Viewed 30.6k times · Source

I run GDB on object file (e.g exeFile) and I want to examine it according to several commands . How can I execute these commands according to lines in a file (instead input these each GDN running) ?

For example - I want to set break in - 

break *0x8048e19
break *0x8048e32
break *0x8048e6f
break *0x8048e90

so I want to save them in a file and then tell the GDB execute them from this file.

Answer

Kanwar Saad picture Kanwar Saad · Jan 9, 2013

write the commands in a file and execute gdb with -x switch

gdb -x command_file_name

or run the gdb source command while gdb is running if you dont want to specify a command file from command line

>source [-s] [-v] command_file_name

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