Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1885 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 04 April 2009 20:08:43 David C. Rankin wrote:
> Listmates,
>
>       Another simple question I'm looking for a better answer to. What is the
> best way to step line-by-line through bash script for debugging? I found
> the following, that works, but it just doesn't seem like an elegant
> solution for longer scripts:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> set -x
> trap "read x" DEBUG
>
>       What are the other tools that will do this?

I haven't used it much, but bashdb looks very useful to me. It allows you to 
do to a bash script what gdb lets you do to a C program.

I've only used it a little so I'm no great expert, but it has been useful to 
me. break, step and print are the things I use the most in a debugger anyway

Anders
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