tracefile: Converted to perl. Deals correctly with files containing space.

timestamp/timestamp

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ B<timestamp> prepends stdin (standard input) with a timestamp.
 
 =over 9
 
-=item B<--delta>
+=item B<--delta> (default)
 
 Regard start time as epoch and thus show difference between start time
 and now.
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Output time format in ISO8601 (E.g. 2013-01-30T13:57:58.322).
 Output time format in ISO8601/time only (E.g. 13:57:58.322).
 
 
-=item B<--epoch>
+=item B<--epoch> (default)
 
 Output time format as seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00 (E.g. 1359557768.423).
 
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ B<vmstat 1 | timestamp>
 
 =head2 Timestamp each step in setting up/tearing down ssh connection:
 
-B<ssh localhost echo test | timestamp --delta --epoch>
+B<ssh -v localhost echo test 2>&1 | timestamp --delta --epoch>
 
 
 =head1 REPORTING BUGS

tracefile/tracefile

-#!/bin/bash
-
-export _EXISTS=0
-export _NONEXISTS=0
-export _UNIQUE=0
-
-while true ; do
-        case "$1" in
-                -e|--exists) export _EXISTS=1; shift ;;
-                -n|--nonexists) export _NONEXISTS=1; shift ;;
-                -a|--all) export _EXISTS=1; export _NONEXISTS=1; shift ;;
-                -u|--unique) export _UNIQUE=1; shift ;;
-                *) break;
-        esac
-done
-
-if [ "$_EXISTS" == "0" -a "$_NONEXISTS" == "0" ] ; then
-  export _EXISTS=1
-  export _NONEXISTS=1
-fi
-
-strace -ff -e trace=file "$@" 2>&1 |
-  perl -ne 's/^[^"]+"(([^\\"]|\\[\\"nt])*)".*/$1/ && do { '$_EXISTS' and -e $1 and (not '$_UNIQUE' or not $seen{$_}++) and print; '$_NONEXISTS' and ! -e $1 and (not '$_UNIQUE' or not $seen{$_}++) and print };'
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use Getopt::Long;
+
+$Global::progname = "tracefile";
+
+Getopt::Long::Configure("bundling","pass_through");
+get_options_from_array(\@ARGV) || die_usage();
+
+if(not ($opt::exists or $opt::nonexists or $opt::all)) {
+    $opt::all = 1;
+}
+
+my @cmd = shell_quote(@ARGV);
+
+open(IN, "-|", "strace -ff -e trace=file @cmd 2>&1") || die;
+while(<IN>) {
+    if(s/^[^\"]+"(([^\\"]|\\[\\"nt])*)".*/$1/) {
+	# Matches the strace structure for a file
+	my $file = shell_unquote($1);
+	my $print = 0;
+	if($opt::all
+	   or
+	   ($opt::exists and -e $file)
+	   or
+	   ($opt::nonexists and not -e $file)) {
+	    $print = 1;
+	}
+	if($opt::unique and $seen{$file}++) {
+	    $print = 0;
+	}
+	$print and print;
+    }
+}
+
+sub options_hash {
+    # Returns a hash of the GetOptions config
+    return
+	("debug|D" => \$opt::debug,
+	 "uniq|unique|u" => \$opt::unique,
+         "exists|exist|e" => \$opt::exists,
+         "nonexists|nonexist|non-exists|non-exist|n" => \$opt::nonexists,
+         "all|a" => \$opt::all,
+	);
+}
+
+sub get_options_from_array {
+    # Run GetOptions on @array
+    # Returns:
+    #   true if parsing worked
+    #   false if parsing failed
+    #   @array is changed
+    my $array_ref = shift;
+    # A bit of shuffling of @ARGV needed as GetOptionsFromArray is not
+    # supported everywhere
+    my @save_argv;
+    my $this_is_ARGV = (\@::ARGV == $array_ref);
+    if(not $this_is_ARGV) {
+	@save_argv = @::ARGV;
+	@::ARGV = @{$array_ref};
+    }
+    my @retval = GetOptions(options_hash());
+    if(not $this_is_ARGV) {
+	@{$array_ref} = @::ARGV;
+	@::ARGV = @save_argv;
+    }
+    return @retval;
+}
+
+sub shell_unquote {
+    # Unquote strings from shell_quote
+    # Returns:
+    #   string with shell quoting removed
+    my @strings = (@_);
+    my $arg;
+    for my $arg (@strings) {
+        if(not defined $arg) {
+            $arg = "";
+        }
+        $arg =~ s/'\n'/\n/g; # filenames with '\n' is quoted using \'
+        $arg =~ s/\\([\002-\011\013-\032])/$1/g;
+        $arg =~ s/\\([\#\?\`\(\)\{\}\*\>\<\~\|\; \"\!\$\&\'])/$1/g;
+        $arg =~ s/\\\\/\\/g;
+    }
+    return wantarray ? @strings : "@strings";
+}
+
+sub shell_quote {
+    my @strings = (@_);
+    for my $a (@strings) {
+        $a =~ s/([\002-\011\013-\032\\\#\?\`\(\)\{\}\[\]\*\>\<\~\|\; \"\!\$\&\'\202-\377])/\\$1/g;
+        $a =~ s/[\n]/'\n'/g; # filenames with '\n' is quoted using \'
+    }
+    return wantarray ? @strings : "@strings";
+}
+
+sub die_usage {
+    # Returns: N/A
+    usage();
+    wait_and_exit(255);
+}
+
+sub usage {
+    # Returns: N/A
+    print join
+	("\n",
+	 "Usage:",
+	 "$Global::progname [-u] [-a] [-n] [-e] command [arguments]",
+	 "",
+	 "See 'man $Global::progname' for details",
+	 "");
+}
+
+sub warning {
+    my @w = @_;
+    my $fh = $Global::original_stderr || *STDERR;
+    my $prog = $Global::progname || "tracefile";
+    print $fh $prog, ": Warning: ", @w;
+}
+
+
+sub error {
+    my @w = @_;
+    my $fh = $Global::original_stderr || *STDERR;
+    my $prog = $Global::progname || "tracefile";
+    print $fh $prog, ": Error: ", @w;
+}
+
+
 

tracefile/tracefile.pod

@@ -43,6 +43,18 @@ List only files once.
 =back
 
 
+=head1 EXAMPLES
+
+=head2 EXAMPLE: Find the missing package
+
+Assume you have a program B<foo>. When it runs it fails with: I<foo:
+error: missing library>. It does not say with file is missing, but you
+have a hunch that you just need to install a package - you just do not
+know which one.
+
+    tracefile -n -u foo | apt-file -f search -
+
+
 =head1 REPORTING BUGS
 
 Report bugs to <tange@gnu.org>.