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STRIP(1)                    General Commands Manual                   STRIP(1)



NAME
       strip - remove symbols and relocation bits

SYNOPSIS
       strip [ -s ] [ -g ] [ -v ] name ...

DESCRIPTION
       Strip  removes the symbol table and relocation bits ordinarily attached
       to the output of the assembler and loader.   This  is  useful  to  save
       space after a program has been debugged.

       If  -s  is specified, the symbol table is compressed by removing dupli‐
       cate structure definitions and symbol table entries; no information  is
       lost.  If -g is specified, all line-number information is deleted, thus
       inverting the effect of `cc -g'; -s compression is performed  as  well.
       The  -v flag prints out size information.  If no flags are given, strip
       removes the symbol table entirely; this is the same as use  of  the  -s
       option of ld(1).

FILES
       shrink?   temporary file

SEE ALSO
       cc(1), ld(1)



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