strace's `--tips`
Two things I can’t believe I didn’t know earlier:
- strace’s official logo is an adorable ostrich
- If you pass
--tips
to strace, it’ll give you an ASCII-art ostrich with a speech bubble with an strace tip, like this: (via jade)
______________________________________________ ____
| You can use -o|COMMAND to redirect strace's | |-. .-.|
| output to COMMAND. This may be useful \ (_@)(_@)
| in cases when there is a redirection \ .---_ \
| in place for the traced program. Don't _\ /.. \_/
| forget to escape the pipe character, though, / |__.-^ /
| as it is usually interpreted by the shell. | } |
\______________________________________________/ | [