a little tip

[Toby Fisher]

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Adam Myrow wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Alex Snow wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > Wow that does save a lot of disk space, but one question:
> > how do you strip a binary?
>
> Easy.  You type "strip filename."  Works for most executables and
> libraries.  Most of the binaries that ship with distros are already
> stripped.  A trick to see if any aren't is to do this.  Change to a
> directory with programs like /usr/bin and type "file * | grep "not
> stripped."  You'll see all the file descriptions that contain the phrase
> "not stripped."  There are a few in Slackware, and of course, check
> /usr/local/bin since that's where most of the stuff you build ends up.  By
> the way, Centericq may have been an extreme case, but it doesn't hurt
> anyway.  Just do an "ls -l" before and after, or better yet, "ls -lh."
> That's a neat mode that is specific to GNU versions of ls.

Hmmm, is it safe to try and strip a stripped binary, and what happens if
you accidentally try to strip a text file?  Was just thinking of the lazy
man's way out:
cd /usr/bin
strip *

Cheers.

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