Documented in Volume 1 of the UNIX Programmers Manual.
% strip /va/kemp/bin/example
will cause the binary (executable C program) to become smaller by
stripping out the symbol table and relocation bits. Before strip,
an 'ls' might yield:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kemp 11264 May 16 09:13 /va/kemp/bin/example
After strip, the ls looks like this:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kemp 9216 May 25 11:16 /va/kemp/bin/example