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Re: limiting strace?
- From: Thomas L Roche <tlroche at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:18:32 -0500
- Subject: Re: limiting strace?
At 04:32 PM 2/16/2004, Thomas L Roche wrote:
>> I know how to use those tools to *report from* strace.out ... but
>> that's not what I'm trying to do. I don't want to say, "give me the
>> last million lines from strace.out"--windows being what it is, if
>> the file's big enough I may not get a chance to ask!
Igor Pechtchanski 02/16/2004 05:06:35 PM:
> Simple: don't output the trace to a file. The "by default" up there
> means that if you don't supply the "-o" option, strace will send the
> trace to stdout.
>> I want instead to say something like, "don't let strace.out get
>> bigger than a million lines," or 1GB, or something like that. How
>> to do _that_, script wizards?
> Umm, how about something like the line below?
> strace unzip whatever | tail -1000000 > strace.out 2>&1 &
Doh! Much better, will try that.
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