Despite ksh shebang, sotruss is apparently bash script (function keyword, $"" NLS) However mksh also accepts this syntax leaving strings untranslated. --- glibc-2.14/elf/sotruss.sh.orig 2011-05-31 06:12:33.000000000 +0200 +++ glibc-2.14/elf/sotruss.sh 2011-06-11 09:42:22.467864393 +0200 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -#! @BASH@ +#! /bin/mksh # Copyright (C) 2011-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This file is part of the GNU C Library.