1.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.roff% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)strip.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 06/06/93 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt STRIP 1 10.Os 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm strip 13.Nd remove unnecessary information from executable files 14.Sh SYNOPSIS 15.Nm strip 16.Op Fl d 17.Ar file ... 18.Sh DESCRIPTION 19The 20.Nm strip 21utility 22deletes the relocation information and symbol table used by 23assemblers, loaders and debuggers. 24This significantly 25decreases the size of the installed binaries and saves disk space. 26.Pp 27The options are as follows: 28.Bl -tag -width Ds 29.It Fl d 30Delete only debugging and empty symbols. 31.El 32.Pp 33.Nm Strip 34exits 0 on success and 1 if an error occurred. 35.Sh SEE ALSO 36.Xr cc 1 , 37.Xr ld 1 , 38.Xr stab 5 39.Sh HISTORY 40A 41.Nm 42command appeared in 43.At v6 . 44