NAME¶

gcore - Generate a core file for a running process

SYNOPSIS¶

gcore [-o filename] pid

DESCRIPTION¶

gcore generates a core file for the process specified by its process ID, pid. By default, the core file is written to core.pid, in the current directory.

-o filename

write core file to filename instead of core.pid

COPYING¶

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Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one.

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SEE ALSO¶

gdb(1), core(5)