Page request: objcopy

[q2333gh]

Command description

The objcopy command is a utility that is part of the GNU Binutils suite. It is used to copy and translate object files.

Command details

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Documentation

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Platform

Linux

VCS repository link (e.g. GitHub, GitLab)

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Additional information

objcopy
Copy and translate object files. More information: https://manned.org/objcopy.

• Copy one object file to another:
  objcopy {{infile}} {{outfile}}

• Translate object files from one format to another:
  objcopy -I {{input_format}} -O {{output_format}} {{infile}} {{outfile}}

• Strip all symbol information:
  objcopy -S {{infile}} {{outfile}}

• Strip debugging information:
  objcopy -g {{infile}} {{outfile}}

• Copy a specific section from the source object file to the destination object file:
  objcopy -j {{section}} {{infile}} {{outfile}}

• Create a binary image for a bootloader:
  objcopy -O binary -j .text {{bootloader.elf}} {{bootloader.bin}}

[vitorhcl]

Thank you for writing a tldr page for this command!

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I would like to ask you to open a pull request for getting used with our workflow and, if you want, making more contributions in the future ;)

You can either use the web interface or the terminal for this, see our guide: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/blob/main/contributing-guides%2Fgit-terminal.md

[vitorhcl]

Hi @q2333gh!

Could you please submit a PR for this page? Pages are better done by their users; however, if you can't, no problem, I can do that for you.

Cheers!

[pranav10780]

#12754

[acuteenvy]

Added in #12765.