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8 .Nd list dynamic object dependencies
18 utility displays all shared objects that are needed to run the given program or
19 to load the given shared object.
24 dependencies that are the result of needed shared objects which themselves
25 depend on yet other shared objects.
30 The argument is a format string passed to
32 and allows customization of
35 If one is given, it sets
36 .Ev LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS_FMT1 .
37 If two are given, they set
38 .Ev LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS_FMT1
40 .Ev LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS_FMT2 ,
44 for details, including a list of recognized conversion characters.
48 option displays the list of all objects that are needed by each loaded
53 option is left for compatibility and has no effect.
55 The following is an example of a shell pipeline which uses the
58 It will print a report of all ELF binaries in the current directory,
59 which link against libc.so.6:
61 .Dl "find . -type f | xargs -n1 file -F ' ' | grep ELF | cut -f1 -d' ' | xargs ldd -f '%A %o\en' | grep libc.so.6"
69 utility first appeared in SunOS 4.0, it appeared in its current form in