gcore(1)

gcore -- get core images of running processes

Synopsis

gcore [-o file] [-p procdir] process-id . . .

Description

The gcore command creates a core image of each specified process. This image can be used with debuggers such as debug. The name of the core image file for the process whose process ID is process-id will be core.process-id.

The following options are available:

-o file: Substitutes file in place of core as the first part of the name of the core image files.
-p procdir: Substitutes procdir in place of /proc as the process file system.

Files

core.process-id: core images
/proc/process-id: process filesystem

References

core(4), debug(1), kill(1), proc(4), sh(1)