hstrace

A tiny wrapper around strace giving colored output and more user friendly defaults.

• Color output using source-highlight
• Increase string length to a value matching the terminal width (-s …)
• Decode fd's to filenames (-y)
• Enable timestamps (-t)
• Include subproceses (-f)
• Enable statistics at command end (-C)
• Align return codes (-a …)

Example: strace ls

hstrace ls

Dependencies, Usage

Make sure you have source-highlight, tput and strace installed. Call hstrace.sh just as you would call strace.

To install it system wide, I recommend something like:

# git clone https://github.com/Nudin/hstrace /opt/hstrace
# ln -s /opt/hstrace/hstrace.sh /usr/local/bin/hstrace