On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 20:41, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> on Tue, 04 Mar 2003 05:13:33PM -0500, Benjamin Rutt insinuated:
> > Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > okay, this is cool ... i'd just misunderstood a friend's question.
> > > he doesn't even want to run top, he wants to stick in a bunch of
> > > echo statements.
> >
> > In that case, place 'set -x' as the 2nd line of the shell script
> > (the line after the #! business) and see every command echoed as it
> > is executed. -- Benjamin
>
> *exactly* what i(/he) wanted! thanks!
Try this:
#!/bin/bash
set -x
set -v
for i in 1 2 3 4 5;
do
echo foobar${i} ;
done
After seeing Benjamin Rutt mention "-x", I tried it along with "-v",
and having both makes it much easier to see the flow of the script.
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