Bourn Shell -n Flag Questions

[N. Ersen SISECI]

Hello,

Bourne shell is bash. So you should try
bash -n scriptname



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N. Ersen SISECI
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On 4/28/06, Martin McCormick <martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote:
>         I read about the noexecute flag or -n flag which is supposed
> to check the syntax of a Bourn Shell script to see what it would do if
> run, but not actually do anything.  This sounds like a wonderful
> thing, especially when one is going to run a dangerous script and you
> only get one chance to get it right.
>
>         I tried sh -n scriptname and it always silently succeeds even
> if I type sh -x -n somescript.  I even deliberately created a script
> with a syntax error in it and tried sh -x -n again.  It still did
> nothing but exit.  Does this just not work or am I misunderstanding
> the purpose of the flag?
>
>         Thanks for your help.
>
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK
> Systems Engineer
> OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group
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