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authorTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>1995-10-18 08:53:40 +0000
committerTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>1995-10-18 08:53:40 +0000
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+.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
+.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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+.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
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+.\" This product includes software developed by the University of
+.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
+.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
+.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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+.\"
+.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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+.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
+.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
+.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
+.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
+.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.\" from: @(#)strip.1 6.6 (Berkeley) 5/26/91
+.\" $Id: strip.1,v 1.1 1995/10/18 08:46:09 deraadt Exp $
+.\"
+.Dd May 26, 1991
+.Dt STRIP 1
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm strip
+.Nd remove unnecessary information from executable files
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm strip
+.Op Fl d
+.Op Fl x
+.Ar file ...
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Nm 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.
+.Pp
+The options are as follows:
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It Fl d
+Delete only debugging and empty symbols.
+.It Fl x
+Delete only debugging, compiler identification, and local symbols.
+.El
+.Pp
+.Nm Strip
+exits 0 on success and 1 if an error occurred.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr cc 1 ,
+.Xr ld 1 ,
+.Xr stab 5
+.Sh HISTORY
+A
+.Nm
+command appeared in
+.At v6 .