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From: miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Advanced MINIX (and a fix for strip.c)
Message-ID: <910428541@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org>
Date: 28 Apr 91 12:58:00 GMT
References: <910415203@bbltv.nl.mugnet.org>
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In article <910415203@bbltv.nl.mugnet.org>, edvard@bbltv.nl.mugnet.org (Edvard Tuinder) wrote:
> Hello *,
> 
> Well, I have justed installed my copy of NLMUG Advanced MINIX 1.5.10D 
> and it's working great. It really is much better then my old (?) 1.5.10.
I have 1.5.10E .... ;-(
> 
> But while wading through all the program's I noticed that a lot of
> them were having a symbol table and since I'm short in disk space
> I did a strip * in /usr/bin.
ai...
> I had better not... This actually ruins all setup ownership of the stripped
> programs. Most of the programs were owned by bin.  This was changed into
> root whithout notice (also the SETUID programs....)
> One other thing was stripping linked files. This resulted in mutiple
I know the problem. Below is my solution: a shell script called sstrip.

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#!/bin/sh
#
# sstrip: retain links.
#
if [ $# = 0 ]
then
	echo Usage: sstrip files
	exit 1
fi
for i in $*
do
	echo $i
	ln $i $i.l
	echo stripping...
	strip $i.l
	echo copying...
	cp $i.l $i
	echo remove backup
	rm -f $i.l
done
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Simple, eh?
Miquel.
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