Need to see each commands in a Shell script while running

[ezhilarasan_1]

Hi,

I want to see each commands in a Shell script while running. Normally while running a script, it will not display every commands built in the script. But I want to see. I hope, some set command will help ..but I forgot.

Thanks
R.Ezhil

[A. Clay Stephenson]

set -x

[Michael Steele_2 · Accepted solution]

#!/usr/bin/ksh
set -xv

Note: 'set -xv' will ignore commands embedded within functions. Just add another 'set -xv' to get around this. For example:

#!/usr/bin/ksh
set -xv

out_put ()
{
...
}
###############
Main

for i in $LIST
do
echo $i
done
###############

In this example on the for loop in Main will be displayed while the function 'out_put () ' will not.

To get around this :

out_put ()
{
set -xv
...
}

[Steve Bonds]

Or, if you don't want to modify the script itself:

sh -xv <script name>

-- Steve

[Dave La Mar]

To add to what the experts have already stated, I will commonly do
#!/usr/bin/ksh -x
rest of script

while testing.

Best of luck.

Regards,

dl

[John Meissner]

in your script you could also have it echo the commands you are going to run