1STRIP(1P) POSIX Programmer's Manual STRIP(1P)
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13 strip — remove unnecessary information from strippable files (DEVELOP‐
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17 strip file...
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20 A strippable file is defined as a relocatable, object, or executable
21 file. On XSI-conformant systems, a strippable file can also be an ar‐
22 chive of object or relocatable files.
23 The strip utility shall remove from strippable files named by the file
25 operands any information the implementor deems unnecessary for execu‐
26 tion of those files. The nature of that information is unspecified. The
27 effect of strip on object and executable files shall be similar to the
28 use of the −s option to c99 or fort77. The effect of strip on an ar‐
29 chive of object files shall be similar to the use of the −s option to
30 c99 or fort77 for each object file in the archive.
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33 None.
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36 The following operand shall be supported:
37 file A pathname referring to a strippable file.
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41 Not used.
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44 The input files shall be in the form of strippable files successfully
45 produced by any compiler defined by this volume of POSIX.1‐2008 or pro‐
46 duced by creating or updating an archive of such files using the ar
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50 The following environment variables shall affect the execution of
51 strip:
52 LANG Provide a default value for the internationalization vari‐
54 ables that are unset or null. (See the Base Definitions vol‐
55 ume of POSIX.1‐2008, Section 8.2, Internationalization Vari‐
56 ables for the precedence of internationalization variables
57 used to determine the values of locale categories.)
58 LC_ALL If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of
60 all the other internationalization variables.
61 LC_CTYPE Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of
63 bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-byte as
64 opposed to multi-byte characters in arguments).
65 LC_MESSAGES
67 Determine the locale that should be used to affect the format
68 and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard
69 error.
70 NLSPATH Determine the location of message catalogs for the processing
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75 Default.
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78 Not used.
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81 The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.
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84 The strip utility shall produce strippable files of unspecified format.
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90 The following exit values shall be returned:
91 0 Successful completion.
93 >0 An error occurred.
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97 Default.
98 The following sections are informative.
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102 None.
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105 None.
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108 Historically, this utility has been used to remove the symbol table
109 from a strippable file. It was included since it is known that the
110 amount of symbolic information can amount to several megabytes; the
111 ability to remove it in a portable manner was deemed important, espe‐
112 cially for smaller systems.
113 The behavior of strip on object and executable files is said to be the
115 same as the −s option to a compiler. While the end result is essen‐
116 tially the same, it is not required to be identical.
117 XSI-conformant systems support use of strip on archive files containing
119 object files or relocatable files.
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122 None.
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125 ar, c99, fort77
126 The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008, Chapter 8, Environment
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131 Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form
132 from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information Technology
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