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Old 03-23-2008
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debugging a script??

Hi all,

Am working on a script to understand the flow control of it..
Since i am from a C background i looking out for an easy way to analyze the script as it runs ..

In C/C++ we have F7 that starts execution from main() and proceeds accordingly..
I was wondering if there is a same approach for shell scripts..

These are what i already tried..

bash -xv <script>
this is a little hard to understand (esp when the script itself runs into pages)
i tried understand function by function by using "set +x and set -x"
that was of little help..

so can anyone help me out on this??

Thanks