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.SH "NAME"
trace-cmd-start \- start the Ftrace Linux kernel tracer without recording
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
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\fBtrace\-cmd start\fR [\fIOPTIONS\fR]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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The trace\-cmd(1) start enables all the Ftrace tracing the same way trace\-cmd\-record(1) does\&. The difference is that it does not run threads to create a trace\&.dat file\&. This is useful just to enable Ftrace and you are only interested in the trace after some event has occurred and the trace is stopped\&. Then the trace can be read straight from the Ftrace pseudo file system or can be extracted with trace\-cmd\-extract(1)\&.
.SH "OPTIONS"
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The options are the same as \fItrace\-cmd\-record(1)\fR, except that it does not take options specific to recording (\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-o\fR, \fB\-N\fR, and \fB\-t\fR)\&.
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\fB\-\-fork\fR
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This option is only available for trace\-cmd start\&. It tells trace\-cmd to not wait for the process to finish before returning\&. With this option, trace\-cmd start will return right after it forks the process on the command line\&. This option only has an effect if trace\-cmd start also executes a command\&.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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trace\-cmd(1), trace\-cmd\-record(1), trace\-cmd\-report(1), trace\-cmd\-stop(1), trace\-cmd\-extract(1), trace\-cmd\-reset(1), trace\-cmd\-split(1), trace\-cmd\-list(1), trace\-cmd\-listen(1)
.SH "AUTHOR"
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Written by Steven Rostedt, <\m[blue]\fBrostedt@goodmis\&.org\fR\m[]\&\s-2\u[1]\d\s+2>
.SH "RESOURCES"
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git://git\&.kernel\&.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/trace\-cmd\&.git
.SH "COPYING"
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Copyright (C) 2010 Red Hat, Inc\&. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL)\&.
.SH "NOTES"
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rostedt@goodmis.org
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