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<h4 class="node-heading">gcore man</h4>
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<pre class="format">gcore [-o <var>filename</var>] <var>pid</var>
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<p>Generate a core dump of a running program with process ID <var>pid</var>.
Produced file is equivalent to a kernel produced core file as if the process
crashed (and if <kbd>ulimit -c</kbd> were used to set up an appropriate core dump
limit). Unlike after a crash, after <code>gcore</code> the program remains
running without any change.
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<dt><code>-o <var>filename</var></code></dt>
<dd><p>The optional argument
<var>filename</var> specifies the file name where to put the core dump.
If not specified, the file name defaults to <samp>core.<var>pid</var></samp>,
where <var>pid</var> is the running program process ID.
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