I was reading through this documentation about instruments command line tool https://help.apple.com/instruments/mac/current/#/devb14ffaa5 and how it can be launched from the command line. However, unlike what the documentation states, there's no such instruments command anywhere on my macos M1 (OS version 15.6). That command gives:
$> instruments
zsh: command not found: instruments
I do have XCode installed which has the Instruments.App (GUI app) but not the command line utility:
$> ls Xcode.app/Contents/Applications/
... Instruments.app
Is that linked documentation up-to-date (it does say "latest" in the URL)? Is there some other way to install this command line utility?
Hi! The instruments command-line tool was deprecated a few years ago and replaced with xctrace. The help page you linked is indeed out of date and unfortunately there isn’t anny official online documentation for xctrace that I could find. That said, you can run xctrace --help or xctrace <subcommand> --help to access the built-in help which documents all the options and includes a number of usage examples.
Jed
