NAME

strip - remove unnecessary information from executable files (DEVELOPMENT)

SYNOPSIS

strip file...

DESCRIPTION

The strip utility removes from executable files named by the file operands any information the implementor deems unnecessary for execution of those files. The nature of that information is unspecified. The effect of strip is the same as the use of the -s option to cc, c89 or fort77.

OPTIONS

None.

OPERANDS

The following operand is supported:

file

A pathname referring to an executable file.

STDIN

Not used.

INPUT FILES

The input files must be in the form of executable files successfully produced by any compiler defined by this specification.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

The following environment variables affect the execution of strip:

LANG

Provide a default value for the internationalisation variables that are unset or null. If LANG is unset or null, the corresponding value from the implementation-dependent default locale will be used. If any of the internationalisation variables contains an invalid setting, the utility will behave as if none of the variables had been defined.

LC_ALL

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

LC_CTYPE

Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as characters (for example, single- 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 catalogues for the processing of LC_MESSAGES .

ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS

Default.

STDOUT

Not used.

STDERR

Used only for diagnostic messages.

OUTPUT FILES

The strip utility will produce executable files of unspecified format.

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION

None.

EXIT STATUS

The following exit values are returned:

0

Successful completion.

>0

An error occurred.

CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS

Default.

APPLICATION USAGE

None.

EXAMPLES

None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

None.

SEE ALSO

ar, cc, c89, fort77.