Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!pyrnj!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!ron From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Is there a need for Shell script debugger? Keywords: Debugger, Shell. Message-ID: Date: 21 Jul 88 17:40:59 GMT References: <1035@ndsuvax.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 10 Frankly I doubt that there is much need for a "shell script" debugger. Unlike C programs, shell is interpretted and the shell already provides you some nice features (-x -v flags) to watch it's progress. The only debug features I can think of as actually being useful you couldn't implement as either a script or a C program, but would actually need to take place as a modification to the Shell itself. These features would be things like the ability to single step through the script, examining or setting variables as neccessary between the steps. -Ron