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Tuesday Sep 14, 2004
reading and writing long dtrace command lines
If you read through my last dtrace adventure, you may have noticed more than a few multi-line dtrace commands.
Like most engineers, I will look for the easiest way to accomplish what I need to get done. Actually writing D-scripts into a file is only something that I'll do if things start getting a bit complex.
When I'm playing dtrace, I tend to use "ksh -o vi" as my shell.
As my scripts commands start heading toward that right margin, I use the edit option within ksh and actually lay out the command across multiple lines so I can read what I'm doing. For those that haven't tried this, it's just a matter of hitting <ESC>v while typing.
It's also a good way of evolving the commands as you go, which is the basis of a lot of dtrace-instigated investigative work.
It certainly helps me make for dtrace commands that are a little more complex than you would normally type on the command line, but not quite comlex enough to make the decision to start writing scripts.
Posted at 09:48AM Sep 14, 2004 by Alan Hargreaves in Solaris Express | Comments[2]
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Within ksh emacs mode use ^X^E to accomplish the same edit trick** You can specify the editor by setting the environment variable VISUAL or EDITOR; if neither is set then the default 'vi' is used.
** Works happily with ksh Version "M 1993-12-28 p". Alas the standard Solaris ksh 88 in /usr/bin does not have the emacs feature enabled. While ksh93 ( /usr/dt/bin/dtksh) cores with SIGSEGV for me (note neither man page mentions the feature).
Posted by Stacey Marshall on September 16, 2004 at 06:08 AM EST #
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