readelf-python

Python tool to read ELF format, more hackable than GNU's readelf.

ELF: Executable and Linkable Format, the usual format of Unix/Linux's binaries.

Originated from my pull request to @detailyang's readelf.

Options:

usage: readelf.py [-h] [-v] [-eh] [-ph] [-sh] [-it] [-st] [-ds] [-a] file

positional arguments:
  file                  path to the ELF file

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --version         version info
  -eh, --elf-header     print ELF header
  -ph, --program-header
                        print program headers
  -sh, --section-header
                        print section headers
  -it, --interp         print interp, i.e. the dynamic loader (itself a shared
                        binary)
  -st, --symbol-table   print symbol table
  -ds, --dynamic-section
                        print dynamic section
  -a, --all             print all (default)

More on ELF:

• Wikipedia article (this link is less likely to be unavailable)
• ELF specification (version 1.2) from Stanford CS140
• Linux Journal
• GNU's extension to ELF, you need to read the repo yourself. Particularly this header, last updated on 2018-01-03 by Alan Modra.

readelf-color

This is a simple colorizer mounted to the real (GNU's) readelf, like this: readelf ... | readelf-color

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