STRIP(1) BSD General Commands Manual STRIP(1)NAMEstrip — remove unnecessary information from executable files
SYNOPSISstrip [-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 ALSOcc(1), ld(1), stab(5)HISTORY
A strip command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.
BSD June 6, 1993 BSD