#!/bin/sh if test $# = 0; then cat >&2 <<__EOF__ Usage: ${0##*/} STRACE_LOG Finds all STRACE_LOG.PID files, adds PID prefix to every line, then combines and sorts them, and prints result to standard output. It is assumed that STRACE_LOGs were produced by strace with -tt[t] option which prints timestamps (otherwise sorting won't do any good). __EOF__ exit 1 fi logfile=$1 pfxlen=${#1} for file in "$logfile".*; do [ -f "$file" ] || continue suffix=${file:1+$pfxlen} [ "$suffix" -gt 0 ] 2> /dev/null || { echo "Skipped file '$file' (bad suffix)" >&2 continue } pid=$(printf "%-5s" $suffix) # Some strace logs have last line which is not '\n' terminated, # so add extra newline to every file. # grep -v '^$' removes empty lines which may result. sed "s/^/$pid /" < "$file" echo done \ | grep -v '^$' | sort -k2