csh script help

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Fri Apr 14 17:03:15 UTC 2017


On Apr 14, 2017, at 6:47 AM, Ernie Luzar <luzar722 at gmail.com> wrote:
> To aid in debugging the script I'm writing, I place "echo" commands throughout so I can kind of have a trace of the logic as different conditions are processed. Normally I just delete these "echo" commands after I get the script working.

Since you've gotten an answer to the question you asked, let me only note that both sh and csh support the -x flag, which causes the shell to echo the commands as it runs.  This is extremely helpful for debugging.

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck



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