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+#!perl
+
+#create a .tar.gz of /proc/*/@proc_files
+
+use strict;
+
+my(@proc_files) = qw(cmdline stat statm status);
+my $cpname = "copy-proc";
+my $tmp = $ENV{TMPDIR} || "/tmp";
+my $tmpdir = "$tmp/$cpname";
+unless (-e $tmpdir) {
+    mkdir $tmpdir or die "mkdir $tmpdir: $!";
+    print "created $tmpdir\n";
+}
+
+opendir DH, "/proc" or die;
+chdir "/proc";
+
+while (my $pid = readdir DH) {
+    next unless $pid =~ /^\d+$/;
+    for my $name (@proc_files) {
+	unless (-e "$tmpdir/$pid") {
+	    mkdir "$tmpdir/$pid";
+	}
+	local *SRC, *TARG;
+	my $file = "$pid/$name";
+	open SRC, $file or next;
+	open TARG, ">$tmpdir/$file" or die "open $tmpdir/$file: $!";
+	print TARG <SRC>;
+	close TARG;
+	close SRC;
+    }
+}
+
+chdir $tmp or die "chdir $tmp: $!";
+system "tar -cf $cpname.tar $cpname";
+system "gzip -f $cpname.tar";
+
+print "files saved to $tmp/$cpname.tar.gz\n";
+print "to cleanup, run: rm -rf $tmp/$cpname\n";
+
+