TRACE-CMD-OPTIONS(1)

✨ trace-cmd-options(1) ✨

okay so real talk, this is a page from the libtracefs Manual, section 1 — yes it's TRACE-CMD-OPTIONS(1), and no it is not as scary as it sounds, bestie 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

trace-cmd-options — literally just lists the available options from your trace-cmd plugins 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

trace-cmd options

that's it. that's the whole thing. no flags, no arguments, no drama 👑

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so trace-cmd options is the little sidekick command — it goes and peeks at all the trace-cmd plugins that trace-cmd report(1) uses, and then it lists them for you ✨ That's the whole vibe. It's giving "show me what I'm working with" energy and honestly? iconic.

no cap, that's all it does 💖

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

the whole friend group, fr fr — go read these too:

• trace-cmd(1)
• trace-cmd-record(1)
• trace-cmd-start(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)

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Written by Steven Rostedt, <rostedt@goodmis.org> — the main character of this whole manpage ngl 🫡

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🧚 RESOURCES 🧚

the repo, if you wanna go touch the source code yourself:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/trace-cmd/trace-cmd.git/

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⭐ COPYING ⭐

Copyright (C) 2011 Red Hat, Inc. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL) 💖 — so like, yes you can use it, just respect the license, periodt.

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🍓 NOTES 🍓

1. rostedt@goodmis.org mailto:rostedt@goodmis.org

like, an actual clickable mailto and everything, we love that for us 🙈

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lowkey reminder bestie: trace-cmd options shows you the plugins, it doesn't change anything, so no need for the panic emoji 💀

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and that's the whole page, mwah 💋 — with love from the libtracefs girlies, dated 03/09/2026. go forth and slay your tracing, bestie 💅✨🎀🦋