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. -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
