using the terminal effectively
James Livingston
jrl at ids.org.au
Thu Oct 20 09:44:00 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 11:31 +0200, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> So would I. I have a related question...
>
> Is it possible to see the commands an app is giving to the kernel
> (forgive me if I'm confused) to I can learn by seeing how the different
> aps interact with my system.
The command you want is "strace". The man page has a lot of detail, but
"strace command args" is the simplest form.
Cheers,
James "Doc" Livingston
--
"...And the lord said, `lo, there shall only be case or default labels
inside a switch statement'" -- MPW C error message
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