/tags/line-number/ Recent content in Line Number on Amit Agarwal Linux Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:00:08 +0000 /2011/09/16/bash-debugging/ Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:00:08 +0000 /2011/09/16/bash-debugging/ <p>I was trying to <a class="zem_slink" title="Debugging" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debugging" rel="wikipedia">debug</a> some <a class="zem_slink" title="Bash (Unix shell)" href="http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashtop.html" rel="homepage">bash</a> scripts yesterday and learnt something new 😉<br> There are lot of things in bash that you can use to debug and to start with you can enable xtrace mode as follows:</p> <pre class="brush: bash; gutter: true; first-line: 1; ">set -x</pre> <p>With this set you will see that all the commands are printed along with all other information as they are executed.<br> This you can do for any line or for the function or for the whole script. Once you set the option you can turn it<br> off with</p>