Various aliases to deal with shared libraries

libscripts.sh

# get first level dependencies (without dependencies of dependencies)
depends() {
    many=0; [ "$#" -gt 1 ] && many=1
    while [[ "$#" -gt 0 ]]; do
        if [ "$many" == 1 ]; then
            echo -e "\n$1 depends on:"
        fi
        objdump -p "$1" | grep NEEDED | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 3
        shift
    done
}
# get soname
soname() {
    many=0; [ "$#" -gt 1 ] && many=1
    while [[ "$#" -gt 0 ]]; do
        libsoname="$(objdump -p "$1" | grep SONAME | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 3)"
        if [ "$many" == 1 ]; then
            echo "soname of $1: $libsoname"
        else
            echo "$libsoname"
        fi
        shift
    done
}
# find absolute paths to the globally installed library
findlibs() {
    /sbin/ldconfig -p | rev | cut -f1 -d' ' | rev | grep "$1"
}
findlib() {
    findlibs "$1" | head -n 1
}