The Magic of strace

Post by girvo » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 11:11 AM UTC

dave1010uk wrote: post #101

Quick strace command that I use all the time to see what files a process is opening: strace -f 2>&1 | grep ^open Really useful to see what config files something is reading (and the order) or to see what PHP (or similar) files are being included. There's normally other ways to do this (eg using a debugger) but sending strace's stderr to stdout and piping through grep is useful in so many cases it's become a command I…

Post by noselasd » Sun, Feb 02, 2014, 2:56 AM UTC

_delirium wrote: post #46

rosser wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My local CentOS 6.2 VM has bash-builtins in section 1, which is where "man read" takes me. Same with a RHEL 6.4 machine in the colo. This might be a distro-specific thing.

Same with OSX: "man read" opens the builtin(1) manpage. However on Debian 7.3, it opens read(2).