20 Apr
2015
20 Apr
'15
2:04 a.m.
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 09:00:06PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Stephen Harris lists@spuddy.org said:
You should use "bash -x" ("bash" and not "sh" because sh may not be bash everywhere; eg Ubuntu; "-x" and not "+x" because "-x" means "turn on debug" but "+x" means "turn _off_ debug")
Unless you have specific bashisms (which I don't think the original did, and you should mostly avoid in scripts), sh -x will be fine.
It's a matter of "consistency". The script began #!/bin/bash and so a direct shell invocation should _also_ use the same command.
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rgds
Stephen