Recently I was working with the output of pstack from a hung MySQL server and wanted to use Poor Man's Profiler in order to combine stack traces. Unfortunately, the awk magic expects the output from gdb's thread apply all bt output.

gdb output:

Thread 10 (Thread 0xa644db90 (LWP 26275)):
#0  0xb7f47410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb7f33b1a in do_sigwait () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
#2  0xb7f33bbf in sigwait () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
#3  0x081cc4fc in signal_hand ()
#4  0xb7f2b4fb in start_thread () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
#5  0xb7d25e5e in clone () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6

Thread 9 (Thread 0xa641cb90 (LWP 26273)):
#0

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