The following are examples of sh_calls.d. This is a simple script to count Bourne shell calls. Here it traces an example program, Code/Perl/func_abc.sh. # sh_calls.d Tracing... Hit Ctrl-C to end. ^C FILE TYPE NAME COUNT func_abc.sh func func_a 1 func_abc.sh func func_b 1 func_abc.sh func func_c 1 func_abc.sh builtin echo 3 func_abc.sh cmd sleep 3 While tracing, function func_a() from the program "func_abc.sh" was executed once, along with func_b() and func_c(). The "echo" builtin was called 3 times, as was the "sleep" command. The following traced the firefox start script, # sh_calls.d Tracing... Hit Ctrl-C to end. ^C FILE TYPE NAME COUNT firefox builtin . 1 firefox builtin break 1 firefox builtin exit 1 firefox builtin pwd 1 firefox builtin test 1 firefox cmd /usr/lib/firefox/run-mozilla.sh 1 run-mozilla.sh builtin break 1 run-mozilla.sh builtin exit 1 run-mozilla.sh builtin return 1 run-mozilla.sh builtin shift 1 run-mozilla.sh builtin type 1 run-mozilla.sh cmd /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin 1 run-mozilla.sh func moz_run_program 1 run-mozilla.sh func moz_test_binary 1 firefox builtin echo 2 firefox func moz_pis_startstop_scripts 2 firefox builtin cd 3 firefox builtin export 3 run-mozilla.sh builtin export 3 firefox builtin : 6 firefox func moz_spc_verbose_echo 6 run-mozilla.sh subsh - 9 firefox builtin [ 18 firefox subsh - 20 run-mozilla.sh builtin [ 20 The firefox start script called run-mozilla.sh, which can be seen both as a "cmd" call in the above output from the "firefox" script, and as additionall calls from the "run-mozilla.sh" script. The builtin called "[" is the test builtin, and was called 20 times by "run-mozilla.sh" and 18 times by "firefox". The "firefox" script also called 20 subshells.