Once upon a time, Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org> said: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 09:40:29PM -0400, Tim Dunphy wrote: > > Good tip! But I ran the script with sh +x . I guess that running it with sh > > 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. -- Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>