At 04:32 PM 2/16/2004, Thomas L Roche wrote: >> I know how to use those tools to *report from* strace.out ... but >> that's not what I'm trying to do. I don't want to say, "give me the >> last million lines from strace.out"--windows being what it is, if >> the file's big enough I may not get a chance to ask!
>> I want instead to say something like, "don't let strace.out get >> bigger than a million lines," or 1GB, or something like that. because, again, I'm concerned the *the output from strace* will be larger than my diskspace. Larry Hall 02/16/2004 04:42:48 PM: > In your case, it sounds to me like you could just pipe the output of > strace into grep looking for a keyword or two specific to the error > message and the strace message that Chris embellished for you. Hmm ... filter line-by-line? The problem with that (AFAICS--feel free to inform otherwise) is loss of context: but if all Faylor wants is on one line, I'll give strace | fgrep 'commit memory for cygwin heap' > strace.filtered.out a shot. (Feel free to recommend something better!) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
