Command to List Contents of Shared Object (.so) Library

Is there a command to list the contents of a shared object library (.so) fil
e.
For an archive file the command is
ar t name.ar

What is the equivalent for .so files?

Thanks,
Peter.

MajorSetback@excite.com (PeterOut) writes:

> Is there a command to list the contents of a shared object library (.so) f
ile.
> For an archive file the command is
> ar t name.ar
>
> What is the equivalent for .so files?

nm is probably the closest you'll get.

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MajorSetback@excite.com (PeterOut) writes:

> What is the equivalent for .so files?

There is no equivalent, because (unlike .a) a .so is "fully linked"
and can't be "unarchived".

You can think of .a as a bunch of magazine issues in a box --
you can extract 1, 2, or all of them separately.

When linked into .so, they are now "bound together" as a hard-cover
volume (such as you might find in a scientific library).

The closest to 'ar t libfoo.a' is 'ls libfoo.so'

Cheers,
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