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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting set -x not working Post 302235479 by Annihilannic on Friday 12th of September 2008 03:20:08 AM
Old 09-12-2008
Unfortunately when you set -x inside a function it does not affect the outside scope.

I tend to use something like this:

Code:
DEBUG=true
#DEBUG=false

DEBUG && set -x
# ....

 

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package::constants

Package::Constants(3pm) 				 Perl Programmers Reference Guide				   Package::Constants(3pm)

NAME

       Package::Constants - List all constants declared in a package

SYNOPSIS

	   use Package::Constants;

	   ### list the names of all constants in a given package;
	   @const = Package::Constants->list( __PACKAGE__ );
	   @const = Package::Constants->list( 'main' );

	   ### enable debugging output
	   $Package::Constants::DEBUG = 1;

DESCRIPTION

       "Package::Constants" lists all the constants defined in a certain package. This can be useful for, among others, setting up an
       autogenerated "@EXPORT/@EXPORT_OK" for a Constants.pm file.

CLASS METHODS

   @const = Package::Constants->list( PACKAGE_NAME );
       Lists the names of all the constants defined in the provided package.

GLOBAL VARIABLES

   $Package::Constants::DEBUG
       When set to true, prints out debug information to STDERR about the package it is inspecting. Helps to identify issues when the results are
       not as you expect.

       Defaults to false.

BUG REPORTS

       Please report bugs or other issues to <bug-package-constants@rt.cpan.org<gt>.

AUTHOR

       This module by Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT

       This library is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.16.3							    2013-02-26						   Package::Constants(3pm)
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