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Grabbing the DTrace Toolkit

I have become addicted to the DTrace Toolkit, and use it often to troubleshoot application and performance problems. To ensure timely access to the bits when I need them, I setup the following bourne shell alias to grab the latest version of the toolkit: This alias will change directories to /opt, grab the latest version of the toolkit with wget(1m), and uncompress and extract it to the current working directory (CWD).