Launching a process with arguments and profile with shark

Question

I need to sample a (cli) application with shark and pass parameters to it like so:

shortest-path <input-ref-littleendian|diff -u - output-ref

How can I do this with shark ? Shark assumes that the parameters i need to pass to the launched cli app are for shark itself, not the process.

Answer 1

That's not "parameters to a program", that's a shell pipeline. You might need to use parenthesis to make it clear in which order things should happen, eg perhaps something like

$ shark ( shortest-path < input-ref-littleendian | diff -u - output-ref )

I don't have access to shark so I cannot verify this.