diff --git a/tools/strace_tailor.sh b/tools/strace_tailor.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+# Copyright Robert Jordens <robert@joerdens.org> 2014,2015
+
+# assuming your xilinx toolchain lives in /opt/Xilinx,
+# run `strace_tailor.sh /opt/Xilinx/ [synthesis script] [options]`,
+# e.g. for the pipistrello target of misoc:
+#   strace_tailor.sh /opt/Xilinx/ ./make.py -t pipistrello build-bitstream
+# then in your current directory, `opt/Xilinx/*` is the
+# minimal toolchain required for this synthesis script run.
+
+PREFIX=$1
+shift
+strace -e trace=file,process -f -o strace.log $@
+sed -n 's|^.*"\('"$PREFIX"'[^"]*\)".*$|\1|p' strace.log \
+	| sort | uniq | xargs -d '\n' \
+	cp --parent --no-dereference --preserve=all -t .
diff --git a/tools/xilinx_strace_tailor.sh b/tools/xilinx_strace_tailor.sh
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-#!/bin/sh
-# Copyright Robert Jordens <robert@joerdens.org> 2014,2015
-
-# assuming your xilinx toolchain lives in /opt/Xilinx,
-# run `strace-tailor.sh [synthesis script] [options]`
-# then in your current directory, `opt/Xilinx/*` is the
-# minimal toolchain required for this synthesis script run.
-
-PREFIX=\\/opt\\/Xilinx\\/
-
-strace -e trace=file,process -f -o strace.log $@
-sed -n "s/^.*\"\\(${PREFIX}[^\"]*\\)\".*$/\\1/p" strace.log \
-	| sort | uniq | tr '\n' '\0' \
-	| xargs -0 cp --parent --no-dereference --preserve=all -t .