[plug] bash script debugging/tracing

[James Devenish]

In message <4b3125cc04062619307334c13c at mail.gmail.com>
on Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 10:30:44AM +0800, Jeffrey Lim wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 17:20:04 +0800, James Devenish
> <devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> > Have a look at the `set` command (esp. set -x, for example).
> is there any convenient documentation somewhere for the set command?
> 'man set' doesnt cut it

There are various options, as far as I know (but I'm not a Bash user).
One option is to use the 'info' pages and the other is to use the `help`
built-in command. In the case of `set`, the `help` built-in looks like
your best bet (i.e. invoke `help set | less`).