[plug] bash script debugging/tracing

[Brad Campbell]

Jim Householder wrote:
> I am looking for a facility in bash similar to 'echo -x' in csh which 
> will display each line of a script just before it is executed and after 
> all substitutions and expansions have been performed.
> 
> The Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide indicates that there is nothing built 
> in to bash, other than a lot of echos, to facilitate debugging.
> 
> Any suggestions?

sh -x <script file> works perfectly under bash here.

bklaptop:~>bash --version
GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Regards,
Brad