On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 09:00:06PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Stephen Harris <lists at 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. -- rgds Stephen