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Date:      Wed, 8 Aug 2001 15:31:07 -0700
From:      Fred Condo <fred@condo.chico.ca.us>
To:        Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How To Debug Scripts?
Message-ID:  <20010808153107.B47033@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us>
In-Reply-To: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A052@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>; from drewt@writeme.com on Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 02:55:34PM -0700
References:  <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A052@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>

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On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 02:55:34PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> I am attempting to write my first FBSD script.  My shell is tcsh but I'm
> writing the script to use the standard /bin/sh (this is the way I should do
> it, right?).  Anyway, I have written many scripts using OpenVMS on VAXs and
> Alphas.  In that OS, there's a command called "set verify" that prints each
> line of the script as it executes.  This way I can see what symbol
> substitution has taken place and exactly at what line the error(s) occurred.
> Is there something similar to this for Unix scripts?
> 

sh -x scriptname

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