1.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)strip.1 6.4 (Berkeley) 04/22/91 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt STRIP 1 10.Os BSD 4.4 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm strip 13.Nd remove unnecessary information from executable files 14.Sh SYNOPSIS 15.Nm strip 16.Ar 17.Sh DESCRIPTION 18The 19.Nm strip 20utility 21deletes the relocation information and symbol table used by 22assemblers, loaders and debuggers. 23This significantly 24decreases the size of the installed binaries and saves disk space. 25.Pp 26.Nm Strip 27exits 0 on success (or if the file had already been stripped), 1 if 28an error occurred. 29.Sh SEE ALSO 30.Xr as 1 , 31.Xr cc 1 , 32.Xr install 1 , 33.Xr ld 1 34.Sh HISTORY 35A 36.Nm 37command appeared in 38.At v6 . 39