I wanted to download kube-linter, to lint my kubernetes manifests with

I use mise to install it, but (currently) the plugin is broken -- the link it uses for the binary download has a minor typo.

I thought, "how do I fix this without googling it?"

Strace Rules

strace can show files opened by a process—

# from the man page, on the `-e` (trace filtering) flags:
# Trace  all  system calls which take a file name as an argument.  You can think of this
# as an abbreviation for -e trace=open,stat,chmod,unlink,...  which is useful to  seeing
# what  files  the process is referencing.  Furthermore, using the abbreviation will en‐
# sure that you don't accidentally forget to include a call like lstat(2) in  the  list.
# Betchya  woulda  forgot  that  one.   The syntax without a preceding percent sign ("-e
# trace=file") is deprecated.
strace -e trace=%file mise upgrade kube-linter
# outputs many things, including:
# statx(AT_FDCWD, "/home/rosin/.local/share/mise/plugins/kube-linter", AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT, STATX_ALL, {stx_mask=STATX_ALL|STATX_MNT_ID, stx_attributes=0, stx_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, stx_size=4096, ...}) = 0

Nice, we found where mise keeps the kube-linter plugin

From here, it's a little bit of sleuthing to find the code that sets the download url:

# lib/utils.bash, line 48
--- url="$GH_REPO/releases/download/${version}/kube-linter-${os}.tar.gz"
+++ url="$GH_REPO/releases/download/v${version}/kube-linter-${os}.tar.gz"

mise install kube-linter && mise use kube-linter and all is well!