Re: Debugguing shel scripts

Hi Worik,

I'm not sure about a debugger but I've found putting `set -x` at the top of
my scripts helps me with debugging.
This will print to screen what each line of the script is doing, for
example:

The script:
#!/bin/bash

set -x

false
blah=This is something: $(uptime)
echo $blah

results in:
$ ./test_script.sh
+ false
++ uptime
+ blah='This is something:  11:16:17 up  1:53,  4 users,  load average:
0.39, 0.30, 0.33'
+ echo This is something: 11:16:17 up 1:53, 4 users, load average: 0.39,
0.30, 0.33
This is something: 11:16:17 up 1:53, 4 users, load average: 0.39, 0.30, 0.33


Hope this may be of some help,
Chris


On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Worik Stanton <[email protected]>wrote:

> I have a misbehaving shell script.
>
> Are there any debuggers I can use that will let me step through a shell
> script?
>
> cheers
> W
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