Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 17:21:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Tony <tony@idk.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to run a shell script but not execute Message-ID: <200108250021.RAA03258@idk.com> In-Reply-To: <no.id> from "Mike Meyer" at Aug 24, 2001 06:03:22 PM
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Let me rephrase the question: I have a large script with many conditionals in it. I want to preprocess this script so that the end results is a script that would have been executed (but was not). > > Tony <tony@idk.com> types: > > I have a shell script that I want to see what it is gonning execute. > > I tried the -n as in the man page. > > What I think my problem I do not know how to supply the shell script as > > input > > > > sh -n script > > sh -n < script > > > > both do show anything. > > I take it you mean "not show anything". Of course not - you didn't ask > it to. > > The debugging output flags are -v and -x. -v echos the input as it is > read, which is what you want in this case. -x echos the commands > before they are executed. With -n, it does nothing, presumably because > no commands are executed. > > > There must have been something I missed to echo the commands but I cannot > > find it. > > Both -v and -x are listed on the sh man page. > > <mike > -- > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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