The following are examples of sh_syscalls.d. This is a simple script to count Shell functions, built-ins, external command executions and system calls. Here we trace an example program - Code/Shell/func_abc.sh. # sh_syscalls.d -c ./func_abc.sh -o /tmp/out Function A Function B Function C # cat /tmp/out Tracing... Hit Ctrl-C to end. Calls for PID 12966, 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 syscall getrlimit 1 func_abc.sh syscall mmap 1 func_abc.sh syscall munmap 1 func_abc.sh syscall rexit 1 func_abc.sh syscall schedctl 1 func_abc.sh syscall sigaltstack 1 func_abc.sh syscall stat64 1 func_abc.sh syscall sysi86 1 func_abc.sh syscall access 2 func_abc.sh syscall fcntl 2 func_abc.sh syscall getgid 2 func_abc.sh syscall getpid 2 func_abc.sh syscall setcontext 2 func_abc.sh syscall sysconfig 2 func_abc.sh builtin echo 3 func_abc.sh cmd sleep 3 func_abc.sh syscall fork1 3 func_abc.sh syscall getuid 3 func_abc.sh syscall lwp_sigmask 3 func_abc.sh syscall open64 3 func_abc.sh syscall read 3 func_abc.sh syscall write 3 func_abc.sh syscall close 5 func_abc.sh syscall setpgrp 5 func_abc.sh syscall waitsys 6 func_abc.sh syscall brk 9 func_abc.sh syscall ioctl 15 func_abc.sh syscall sigaction 53 While tracing, three functions were called - func_a(), func_b() and func_c(). There were 3 instances of the shell built-in 'echo' being called, and 3 executions of the sleep command (which is probably /usr/bin/sleep - use the syscall provider to confirm). There were numerous system calls made, including 9 brk()'s, 15 ioctl()'s and 53 sigaction()'s. This script can provide an insight to how a script is interacting with the system, by providing function calls, commands, built-ins and system calls in the same output.