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Asked: 2013-01-11 15:50:01 +0800 CST

Interfacing strace with Process Name instead of PID

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How do I implement a wrapper script pstrace in bash that changees the interface of

[sudo] strace -c -p [PID]

to 

[sudo] pstrace -c -p [PROCESS-NAME]

similar to how

killall [PROCESS-NAME]

is used. With completion and everything.

bash

1 Answers

  1. killall tabing is handled with bash-completion package at lease on ubuntu. You can see the script at

    /etc/bash_completion.d/procps

    You'd have to either find a script to drop in that directory or write your own. But for strace the -p is for a pid so not sure how well bash-completion would work.

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