.TH STRIP 1 
.SH NAME
strip \- remove symbols and relocation bits
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B strip
[
.B \-s
] [
.B \-g
] [
.B \-v
] name ...
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I strip
removes the symbol
table and relocation bits ordinarily attached to the output
of the assembler and loader.
This is useful to save space after a program has been
debugged.
.PP
If
.B \-s
is specified, the symbol table is compressed by removing duplicate structure
definitions and symbol table entries; no information is lost.
If
.B \-g
is specified, all line-number information is deleted, thus inverting the
effect of `cc \-g';
.B \-s
compression is performed as well. The
.B \-v
flag prints out size information.
If no flags are given,
.I strip
removes the symbol table entirely; this
is the same as use of the
.B \-s
option
of
.IR ld (1).
.SH FILES
shrink?	temporary file
.SH "SEE ALSO"
cc(1), ld(1)