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Old 12-23-2009
Validate BASH script before running it...
Hello,
Is there some way to validate a bash script before running it. I want to make sure all of the syntax and everything is good so that I dont get a false return code.

Thanks,
tom
# 2  
Old 12-23-2009
Code:
bash -n /path/to/script

# 3  
Old 12-23-2009
Hello,
Another smart way is to set a debugger like
Code:
set -x

in your code at the beginning. and step through the exectution.
Regards
# 4  
Old 12-25-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by gaurav1086
Another smart way is to set a debugger like
Code:
set -x

in your code at the beginning. and step through the exectution.

set -x does run the code; that's not what the OP asked for.
# 5  
Old 12-25-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by cfajohnson

set -x does run the code; that's not what the OP asked for.
Hello sir, cfajohnson
He said to validate, that could show where he could find it going wrong through stepping through the execution. That was merely another way to go through it.

Regards.
Merry Christmas
# 6  
Old 12-25-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by gaurav1086
He said to validate, that could show where he could find it going wrong through stepping through the execution. That was merely another way to go through it.

What he asked for was to "validate a bash script before running it". To do that, bash -n (or set -n) is needed; set -x prints what is being run.
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Old 12-25-2009
You win .
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