Re: commands within shell script

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 20:41, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> on Tue, 04 Mar 2003 05:13:33PM -0500, Benjamin Rutt insinuated:
> > 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
> 
> *exactly* what i(/he) wanted!  thanks!

Try this:
#!/bin/bash
set -x
set -v
for i in 1 2 3 4 5;
do
    echo foobar${i} ;
done

After seeing Benjamin Rutt mention "-x", I tried it along with "-v",
and having both makes it much easier to see the flow of the script.

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