Peter -- ...and then Peter Scott said... % % At 09:37 AM 6/22/02 -0700, drieux wrote: ... % >that is in essence the Shell Debugger. % > % >Which really is not a 'realDebugger[tm]' because it really ... % % Eh? The n and s commands do exactly that. See also the r command.
He didn't mean the perl debgger; he meant sh -x :-) % % Sounded like the original poster wanted tracing. The t command in the % debugger does that. I agree, and I want that, too. I'm going to have to check out 't'. % % Tracing isn't generally as useful for a Perl script as for a shell % script because a shell script typically executes far fewer statements % than the average Perl script. So the output can be unreasonably verbose. Yeah. What we really want is a command or flag that does exactly what -x does :-) I forget whether or not -x stays on when you jump into a function, but it would be nice to be able to watch perl do its thing and how it sees the vars that it's testing (in sh you get to see [ true = true ] when you wrote [ $var = true ] in your script). % -- % Peter Scott % Pacific Systems Design Technologies % http://www.perldebugged.com/ HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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