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Next: <a href="c_002b_002bfilt.html#c_002b_002bfilt" accesskey="n" rel="next">c++filt</a>, Previous: <a href="strings.html#strings" accesskey="p" rel="prev">strings</a>, Up: <a href="index.html#Top" accesskey="u" rel="up">Top</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Binutils-Index.html#Binutils-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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<h2 class="chapter">8 strip</h2>
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<a name="index-strip"></a>
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<a name="index-removing-symbols"></a>
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<pre class="smallexample">strip [<samp>-F</samp> <var>bfdname</var> |<samp>--target=</samp><var>bfdname</var>]
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[<samp>-I</samp> <var>bfdname</var> |<samp>--input-target=</samp><var>bfdname</var>]
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[<samp>-O</samp> <var>bfdname</var> |<samp>--output-target=</samp><var>bfdname</var>]
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[<samp>-s</samp>|<samp>--strip-all</samp>]
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[<samp>-S</samp>|<samp>-g</samp>|<samp>-d</samp>|<samp>--strip-debug</samp>]
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[<samp>--strip-dwo</samp>]
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[<samp>-K</samp> <var>symbolname</var> |<samp>--keep-symbol=</samp><var>symbolname</var>]
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<var>objfile</var>…
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<p><small>GNU</small> <code>strip</code> discards all symbols from object files
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<var>objfile</var>. The list of object files may include archives.
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<dt><code>-F <var>bfdname</var></code></dt>
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<dt><code>--target=<var>bfdname</var></code></dt>
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<dd><p>Treat the original <var>objfile</var> as a file with the object
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code format <var>bfdname</var>, and rewrite it in the same format.
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See <a href="Target-Selection.html#Target-Selection">Target Selection</a>, for more information.
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<dt><code>--help</code></dt>
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<dd><p>Show a summary of the options to <code>strip</code> and exit.
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<dt><code>--info</code></dt>
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<dt><code>-I <var>bfdname</var></code></dt>
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See <a href="Target-Selection.html#Target-Selection">Target Selection</a>, for more information.
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<dt><code>-O <var>bfdname</var></code></dt>
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<dd><p>Replace <var>objfile</var> with a file in the output format <var>bfdname</var>.
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See <a href="Target-Selection.html#Target-Selection">Target Selection</a>, for more information.
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<dd><a name="index-deterministic-archives-6"></a>
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<a name="index-_002d_002denable_002ddeterministic_002darchives-6"></a>
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<samp>--strip-unneeded</samp>, retain any symbols specifying source file names,
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intact. In ELF files, this preserves all the note sections in the
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output as well.
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<samp>--add-gnu-debuglink</samp> to create a two part executable. One a
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file is arbitrary. Also the <code>--only-keep-debug</code> step is
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<li> Link the executable as normal.
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full executable. It does not have to be a file created by the
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<samp>--only-keep-debug</samp> switch.
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does not make sense to use it on object files where the debugging
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debugging information, not multiple filenames on a one-per-object-file
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