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Re: Strange PATH behavior with 1.3.1


On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 06:06:43PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 03:03:27PM -0700, Karr, David wrote:
>>I'd like to get some strace output.  I really would.  Running my script
>>with "strace -o strace.out -f <scriptname>" leaves me with an
>>"strace.out" file of zero size.  It seems to not do anything when run
>>on a script.
>
>Don't run it on scriptname.  strace is a mingw program (for hopefully
>obvious reasons).  It can't execute shell scripts.  You have to run it
>on the shell which is unable to find the scriptname.  You indicated that
>scriptname ran correctly when invoked by hand so I don't see that any
>useful information would come about from running it via strace, even if
>it did work.
>
>If you really want to execute a script, the way to do it is:
>
>strace -owqwer sh script
>
>or, in your case:
>
>strace -owqwere sh -c "script"

So, I'm curious.  What is the status of this problem?

cgf

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