tips, combining strace with pidof

Masatake YAMATO yamato at redhat.com
Fri Mar 2 12:53:40 UTC 2018


> On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 08:57:35PM +0900, Masatake YAMATO wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I guess you, enjyoing hacking strace, may use strace with pidof like:
>> 
>>   # strace -p $(pidof httpd)
>> 
>> As you may know, this doesn't work if there is more that one http process.
> 
> Try
> # strace -p "$(pidof httpd)"
> instead (note extra quotes).
> 
> This syntax is supported since strace-4.7.

Wow! I should take more time to read the man page.

Masatake YAMATO





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