[plug] script debugging

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On 4 Aug 2002, Bill Kenworthy wrote:

> most shell specs take a verbose argument:
> 
> "#!/bin/sh -x"
> 
> chain subscripts/commands for simple error control:
> 
> script1 && script2 runs script1 to completion before script2

Further to that:
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#!/bin/bash

set -x   # Turn on debuging output
set -e   # exit if _any_ command returns an error

...... rest of script here
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Obviously you should use the latter "-e" with caution as if can leave things
in a very messy state, as tempoary files etc etc wont get cleaned up.

Yours Tony

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