04-05-2011
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find . -name core | xargs file | grep "core file" | sed -e ’s/^.*from\ //’ -e s/\’//g
The above command also gives the signal which triggered the core dump.
Examples from my unix system:
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rm - received SIGQUIT
sh - received SIGSEGV
stty - received SIGQUIT
Try it on your course sample core files and see what output you get.
I guess that the "sed" can be adjusted to just give the name of the program which caused the core dump. Then it is a case of finding out if the command is in your current path (possibly with the "whence" command but it depends on what Shell you are using).
Be careful. There is a trick in these instructions. If you only use the supplied command you will never find out the name of the core file and therefore not be able to delete the file. Be careful that you don't end up deleting the program which caused the core dump rather than the core dump itself.
Hint: Try the supplied command without the "sed", then consider how to extract the core file name and the name of the command which caused the core dump.
More hint: When you try with filenames like "core*" in the root partition make sure that your "find" includes "-type f" and that you correctly identify a file as a core dump. Many systems include a directory called "core" and most have "man" pages related to "core" - all of which are files which you definitely don't want to delete.
Last edited by methyl; 04-05-2011 at 12:39 PM..
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NAME
gcore -- get core images of running processes
SYNOPSIS
gcore [-s] [-v] [-b size] [-o path | -c pathformat] pid
DESCRIPTION
The gcore program creates a core file image of the process specified by pid. The resulting core file can be used with a debugger, e.g.
lldb(1), to examine the state of the process.
The following options are available:
-s Suspend the process while the core file is captured.
-v Report progress on the dump as it proceeds.
-b size Limit the size of the core file to size MiBytes.
The following options control the name of the core file:
-o path
Write the core file to path.
-c pathformat
Write the core file to pathformat. The pathformat string is treated as a pathname that may contain various special characters which
cause the interpolation of strings representing specific attributes of the process into the name.
Each special character is introduced by the % character. The format characters and their meanings are:
N The name of the program being dumped, as reported by ps(1).
U The uid of the process being dumped, converted to a string.
P The pid of the process being dumped, converted to a string.
T The time when the core file was taken, converted to ISO 8601 format.
% Output a percent character.
The default file name used by gcore is %N-%P-%T. By default, the core file will be written to a directory whose name is determined from the
kern.corefile MIB. This can be printed or modified using sysctl(8).
The directory where the core file is to be written must be accessible to the owner of the target process.
gcore will not overwrite an existing file, nor will it create missing directories in the path.
EXIT_STATUS
The gcore utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
FILES
/cores/%N-%P-%T default pathname for the corefile.
BUGS
With the -b flag, gcore writes out as much data as it can up to the specified limit, even if that results in an incomplete core image. Such
a partial core dump may confuse subsequent programs that attempt to parse the contents of such files.
SEE ALSO
lldb(1), core(5), Mach-O(5), sysctl(8), sudo(8).
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