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Getting the number of symbols in a symbol table

I'm trying to find the number of symbols an executable defines. Let's say our executable is called "node"

I'm running

nm node

on my terminal, and it's outputting a large number of symbols. I've looked at the man page for nm, along with https://linux.die.net/man/1/nm , but I haven't been able to find something that will simply return a count of the symbols in the symbol table.

Solution

  • Try the following

    nm -an foo | wc -l