Echo out running commands

ronron5477 · #1 03-12-2013

Is there any way in a script to print out the commands being ran? In DOS script, there is the "@echo on" and "@echo off".

so I have a script like this:

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

echo "hello there.  moving files."
<turn on echoing here>
cp thisfile.txt thatfile.txt
cp whatfile.prop whyfile.prop
<turn off echoing here>
echo "Done"

rbatte1 · #2 03-12-2013

To turn on tracing

Code:

set -x

ronron5477 · #3 03-12-2013

EXCELLENT! That's what I needed. Thank you!

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