🖥️objdump

➡️This is a command-line reference manual for commands and command combinations that you don’t use often enough to remember it. This cheatsheet explains the objdump command with important options and switches using examples.

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# objdump 
# program for displaying various information about object files

# Display the contents of the overall file header
objdump -f executable

# Display object format specific file header contents
objdump -p executable

# Display the contents of the section headers
objdump -h executable

# Display assembler contents of executable sections
objdump -d executable

# Display assembler contents of all sections
objdump -D executable

# Display the full contents of all sections
objdump -s executable

# Display all the header information
objdump -x executable

# Display debug information
objdump -g executable

# Display the contents of symbol table (or tables)
objdump -t executable

# Display the contents of dynamic symbol table
# Dynamic symbols are those which are resolved during run time
objdump -T executable

# Display the dynamic relocation entries in the file
objdump -R executable

# Display section of interest
# (extremely useful when you know the section related
# to which the information is required)
objdump -s -j.rodata executable

# Use the older disassembly format
objdump  -D --prefix-addresses executable

# Execute the objdump by calling the options.txt file
objdump @options.txt

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