Executable and Linkable Format — the Linux/Unix binary and shared-object format.
| 0x00000000 | 7F454C46 | ·ELF | 0x7F 'ELF' |
ELF is the executable, shared-library and object format used by Linux and most Unix systems; the header also encodes 32/64-bit, endianness and target CPU. The four-byte magic is 7F 'ELF'.
Have a file that might be ELF executable? Identify it with the File Type Identifier — it reads the magic number locally, nothing is uploaded. Or browse all formats.