centos man page for strip

STRIP(1P)						     POSIX Programmer's Manual							 STRIP(1P)

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NAME
       strip - remove unnecessary information from executable files (DEVELOPMENT)

SYNOPSIS
       strip file...

DESCRIPTION
       The strip utility shall remove from executable files named by the file operands any information the implementor deems unnecessary for  exe-
       cution  of  those files. The nature of that information is unspecified. The effect of strip shall be similar to the use of the -s option to
       c99 or fort77.

OPTIONS
       None.

OPERANDS
       The following operand shall be supported:

       file   A pathname referring to an executable file.

STDIN
       Not used.

INPUT FILES
       The input  files  shall	be  in	the  form  of  executable  files  successfully	produced  by  any  compiler  defined  by  this	volume	of
       IEEE Std 1003.1-2001.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       The following environment variables shall affect the execution of strip:

       LANG   Provide  a  default  value  for  the  internationalization  variables  that  are	unset or null. (See the Base Definitions volume of
	      IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 8.2, Internationalization Variables for the  precedence  of  internationalization  variables  used	to
	      determine the values of locale categories.)

       LC_ALL If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of all the other internationalization variables.

       LC_CTYPE
	      Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to
	      multi-byte characters in arguments).

       LC_MESSAGES
	      Determine the locale that should be used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error.

       NLSPATH
	      Determine the location of message catalogs for the processing of LC_MESSAGES .

ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS
       Default.

STDOUT
       Not used.

STDERR
       The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.

OUTPUT FILES
       The strip utility shall produce executable files of unspecified format.

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION
       None.

EXIT STATUS
       The following exit values shall be returned:

	0     Successful completion.

       >0     An error occurred.

CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS
       Default.

       The following sections are informative.

APPLICATION USAGE
       None.

EXAMPLES
       None.

RATIONALE
       Historically, this utility has been used to remove the symbol table from an executable file. It was included since it  is  known  that  the
       amount  of  symbolic information can amount to several megabytes; the ability to remove it in a portable manner was deemed important, espe-
       cially for smaller systems.

       The behavior of strip is said to be the same as the -s option to a compiler. While the end result  is  essentially  the	same,  it  is  not
       required to be identical.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS
       None.

SEE ALSO
       ar, c99, fort77

COPYRIGHT
       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, Standard for Information Technol-
       ogy -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Institute of
       Electrical  and	Electronics  Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE
       and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can  be  obtained
       online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

IEEE
/The Open Group						       2003								 STRIP(1P)