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Sometimes, it is useful to monitor the operation of the dynamic linker in order to know, for example, where it is searching for libraries. We can use the LD_DEBUG environment variable to do this. By setting this variable to one (or more) of a set of standard keywords, we can obtain various kinds of tracing information from the dynamic linker.
If we assign the value help to LD_DEBUG, the dynamic linker displays help information about LD_DEBUG, and the specified command is not executed: