If you want to open a shared-library file, you would open it like any other binary file — with a hex-editor (also called a binary-editor). There are several hex-editors in the standard repositories such as GHex (https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/ghex) or Bless (https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/bless).
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Simply put, A shared library/ Dynamic Library is a library that is loaded dynamically at runtime for each application that requires it . Dynamic Linking doesn’t require the code to be copied, it is done by just placing name of the library in the binary file.
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A shared library or shared object is a file that is intended to be shared by multiple programs . … In computer science, a library is a collection of non-volatile resources used by computer programs, often for software development.
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