#!/usr/bin/env bash # vim:ts=4:sts=4:sw=4:et # # Author: Hari Sekhon # Date: 2023-05-13 00:48:17 +0100 (Sat, 13 May 2023) # # https://github.com/HariSekhon/DevOps-Bash-tools # # License: see accompanying Hari Sekhon LICENSE file # # If you're using my code you're welcome to connect with me on LinkedIn and optionally send me feedback to help steer this or other code I publish # # https://www.linkedin.com/in/HariSekhon # set -euo pipefail [ -n "${DEBUG:-}" ] && set -x srcdir="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)" # shellcheck disable=SC1090,SC1091 . "$srcdir/lib/utils.sh" # shellcheck disable=SC2034,SC2154 usage_description=" Dumps a trace of the bash profile, .bashrc and all related shell startup costs to a given file Useful to find out why spawning new bash shells gets slow I've used this to cut down from 20 seconds to 2 seconds Tips: - bash completion is expensive and to be mostly avoided - avoid iterating on directories with lots of files, use a targeted find command to efficiently pre-filter - this also reduces the amount of shell tracing eg. for x in somedir_full_of_files/*; do [ -d '\$x' ] || continue; ... ; done <-- this is expensive and noisy in traces - running headtail.py -n 5 on the trace file can be useful, although additional timings added to this file reduce the need " # used by usage() in lib/utils.sh # shellcheck disable=SC2034 usage_args="" help_usage "$@" num_args 1 "$@" trace_file="$1" timestamp "Running bash interactive with shell tracing - output results to '$trace_file'" # the 'time' command outputs a separating space line already #echo >&2 time bash -ix -c 'echo' 2>&1 | logger -s 2>"$trace_file" echo >&2 timestamp "Bash profile trace can now be found in the trace file '$trace_file'"