Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> writes: > okay, this is cool ... i'd just misunderstood a friend's question. he > doesn't even want to run top, he wants to stick in a bunch of echo > statements. In that case, place 'set -x' as the 2nd line of the shell script (the line after the #! business) and see every command echoed as it is executed. -- Benjamin