STRIP

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NAME

strip - remove unnecessary information from executable files  

SYNOPSIS

strip [-d ] file ...  

DESCRIPTION

The strip utility deletes the relocation information and symbol table used by assemblers, loaders and debuggers. This significantly decreases the size of the installed binaries and saves disk space.

The options are as follows:

-d
Delete only debugging and empty symbols.

Strip exits 0 on success and 1 if an error occurred.  

SEE ALSO

cc(1), ld(1), stab(5)  

HISTORY

A strip command appeared in AT&T System v6 .


 

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