command strings and strip: strings - print the strings of printable characters in files strip - Discard symbols from object files [terrence@igloo wminet]$ strings wminet /lib/ld-linux.so.2 __gmon_start__ libXext.so.6 _DYNAMIC _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ _init _fini XShapeCombineMask libXpm.so.4 XParseColor XAllocColor XpmCreatePixmapFromData XCreateGC libX11.so.6 [terrence@igloo wminet]$ la wminet -rwxr-xr-x 1 terrence terrence 38476 Mar 27 10:53 wminet [terrence@igloo wminet]$ strip wminet [terrence@igloo wminet]$ la wminet -rwxr-xr-x 1 terrence terrence 25160 Mar 27 10:59 wminet |