Comments on: How To Enable Shell Script Debugging Mode in Linux

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Sat, 15 Apr 2017 08:32:37 +0000

In reply to Stephan.

@Stephan

Yap, useful tip. Thanks for the useful feedback.

By: Stephan

Stephan — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 15:02:31 +0000

Set -e. Incase you forgot to define used environment variables is very useful!

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 12:10:34 +0000

In reply to Leandro.

@Leandro

The first line can be left out only if a script contains standard system commands without any shell derivatives. We will update the article to include that, however, you may or may not use the execution flag.

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 11:42:45 +0000

In reply to Leandro.

@Leandro

It is a typo and thanks for catching that, we shall correct it and update the article.

By: Leandro

Leandro — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 10:50:47 +0000

The second snipped can be only used if execution flag is enabled. But you don’t say anything related and in this way it is not necessary the first line of code being the code in the your first code snipped