on Wed, 05 Mar 2003 07:49:52AM -0600, Ron Johnson insinuated: > 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.
well, it's cluttered for me, but both are cool options. thanks again, </nori> -- .~. nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu /V\ http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/ // \\ @ maenad.net /( )\ www.maenad.net ^`~'^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]