#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use Tie::STDOUT print => sub { my @params = @_; my @calhis = (); my $i = 2; # to avoid printing stacktrace for Tie::STDOUT # build a kind of stacktrace: while( my ($package, $filename, $line, $subroutine, $hasargs, $wantarray, $evaltext, $is_require, $hints, $bitmask, $hinthash) = caller($i++) ){ push(@calhis, "$filename, line $line : $package".'::'."$subroutine"); } # print the stacktrace with whatever needs to be printed print join("->", @calhis), " : ", @_; } ; print "from main\n"; sub1("main"); sub2("main"); sub sub1 { my $via = $_[0]; print "from sub1 via $via\n"; } sub sub2 { sub1("sub2"); }