ar — Create, modify, and extract from Unix archives. Typically used for static libraries (`.a`) and Debia

E[x]tract all members from an archive

ar x {{path/to/file.a}}

Lis[t] contents in a specific archive

ar t {{path/to/file.ar}}

[r]eplace or add specific files to an archive

ar r {{path/to/file.deb}} {{path/to/debian-binary path/to/control.tar.gz path/to/data.tar.xz ...}}

In[s]ert an object file index (equivalent to using `ranlib`)

ar s {{path/to/file.a}}

Create an archive with specific files and an accompanying object file index

ar rs {{path/to/file.a}} {{path/to/file1.o path/to/file2.o ...}}