1STRIP(1P) POSIX Programmer's Manual STRIP(1P)
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6 This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux
7 implementation of this interface may differ (consult the corresponding
8 Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may
9 not be implemented on Linux.
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12 strip — remove unnecessary information from strippable files (DEVELOP‐
13 MENT)
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16 strip file...
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19 A strippable file is defined as a relocatable, object, or executable
20 file. On XSI-conformant systems, a strippable file can also be an ar‐
21 chive of object or relocatable files.
22 The strip utility shall remove from strippable files named by the file
24 operands any information the implementor deems unnecessary for execu‐
25 tion of those files. The nature of that information is unspecified. The
26 effect of strip on object and executable files shall be similar to the
27 use of the -s option to c99 or fort77. The effect of strip on an ar‐
28 chive of object files shall be similar to the use of the -s option to
29 c99 or fort77 for each object file in the archive.
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32 None.
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35 The following operand shall be supported:
36 file A pathname referring to a strippable file.
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40 Not used.
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43 The input files shall be in the form of strippable files successfully
44 produced by any compiler defined by this volume of POSIX.1‐2017 or pro‐
45 duced by creating or updating an archive of such files using the ar
46 utility.
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49 The following environment variables shall affect the execution of
50 strip:
51 LANG Provide a default value for the internationalization vari‐
53 ables that are unset or null. (See the Base Definitions vol‐
54 ume of POSIX.1‐2017, Section 8.2, Internationalization Vari‐
55 ables for the precedence of internationalization variables
56 used to determine the values of locale categories.)
57 LC_ALL If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of
59 all the other internationalization variables.
60 LC_CTYPE Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of
62 bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-byte as
63 opposed to multi-byte characters in arguments).
64 LC_MESSAGES
66 Determine the locale that should be used to affect the format
67 and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard
68 error.
69 NLSPATH Determine the location of message catalogs for the processing
71 of LC_MESSAGES.
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74 Default.
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77 Not used.
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80 The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.
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83 The strip utility shall produce strippable files of unspecified format.
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86 None.
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89 The following exit values shall be returned:
90 0 Successful completion.
92 >0 An error occurred.
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96 Default.
97 The following sections are informative.
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101 None.
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104 None.
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107 Historically, this utility has been used to remove the symbol table
108 from a strippable file. It was included since it is known that the
109 amount of symbolic information can amount to several megabytes; the
110 ability to remove it in a portable manner was deemed important, espe‐
111 cially for smaller systems.
112 The behavior of strip on object and executable files is said to be the
114 same as the -s option to a compiler. While the end result is essen‐
115 tially the same, it is not required to be identical.
116 XSI-conformant systems support use of strip on archive files containing
118 object files or relocatable files.
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121 None.
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124 ar, c99, fort77
125 The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, Chapter 8, Environment
127 Variables
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130 Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form
131 from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Por‐
132 table Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifi‐
133 cations Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of
134 Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the
135 event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and
136 The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard
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