How to extract only the raw contents of an ELF section?
I've tried the following, but the resulting file is still an ELF and not purely the section content. $ objcopy --only-section=<name> <infile> <outfile> I just want the contents of the section. Is there any utility that can do this? Any ideas? Rather inelegant hack around objdump and dd : IN_F=/bin/echo OUT_F=./tmp1.bin SECTION=.text objdump -h $IN_F | grep $SECTION | awk '{print "dd if='$IN_F' of='$OUT_F' bs=1 count=$[0x" $3 "] skip=$[0x" $6 "]"}' | bash The objdump -h produces predictable output which contains section offset in the elf file. I made the awk to generate a dd command for the