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LDD(1) General Commands Manual LDD(1) NAME ldd -- list dynamic object dependencies SYNOPSIS ldd [-a] [-f format [-f format]] program ... DESCRIPTION The ldd utility displays all shared objects that are needed to run the given program or to load the given shared object. Contrary to nm(1), the list includes "indirect" dependencies that are the result of needed shared objects which themselves depend on yet other shared objects. Zero, one or two -f options may be given. The argument is a format string passed to rtld(1) and allows customization of ldd's output. If one is given, it sets LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS_FMT1. If two are given, they set LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS_FMT1 and LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS_FMT2, respec- tively. See rtld(1) for details, including a list of recognized conversion characters. The -a option displays the list of all objects that are needed by each loaded object. IMPLEMENTATION NOTES ldd lists the dependencies of an executable by setting rtld(1) environment variables and running the executable in a child process. If the executable is corrupt or invalid, ldd may therefore fail without providing any diag- nostic error messages. EXAMPLES The following is an example of a shell pipeline which uses the -f option. It will print a report of all ELF binaries in the current directory, which link against the old libc.so.6: find . -type f | xargs file -F ' ' | grep 'ELF.*dynamically' | cut -f1 -d' ' | xargs ldd -f '%A %o\n' | grep -F libc.so.6 SEE ALSO ld(1), nm(1), readelf(1), rtld(1) HISTORY A ldd utility first appeared in SunOS 4.0, it appeared in its current form in FreeBSD 1.1. FreeBSD ports 15.1 March 21, 2023 LDD(1)
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