peter writes: > Suppose > strace LooseCannon > produces 100 k lines of output but the user is primarily > interested to see the first 1 k lines. > strace LooseCannon | head --lines=1000 > might work but waste time and resources. How can the > process be stopped without losing the strace output and > before excessive waste?
strace LooseCannon 2>&1 | ( head -n1000 ; killall LooseCannon ) Note that this will leave the terminal in whatever state LooseCannon put it in. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/878uhplof1....@thumper.dhh.gt.org
