Shell : quick newb question - redirecting to file
Colin Watson
cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Tue Jul 12 11:17:27 UTC 2005
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 01:04:16PM +0200, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> I am trying to use strace and ltrace to see what Yelp is doing when
> loading the home page, i the hope that I might find a clue in there.
>
> I tried this command : "strace yelp > ~/yelp.strace "
strace outputs to stderr rather than stdout, so you need to use 2>
rather than > if you want to take the redirection approach.
However, strace has a perfectly good option for sending its output to a
file, so just use that (that way you don't mix up the trace with any
error output from the program itself):
strace -o ~/yelp.strace yelp
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
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