[clue] seeking debugging advice

[Chris Fedde]

I typically use 'set' and put each of the switches on it's own line.  My
bash script template includes:

    #!/bin/bash

    #set -x
    #set -v
    set -a
    set -e
    set -u

Then I comment and uncomment as needed.


On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 10:40 PM, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us>
wrote:

> David L. Willson wrote:
> >
> > I use eu always, and x when I'm having problems.
>
> Yes, that's good.  u helps you catch typos in variable names (that
> otherwise just expand to nothing).
>
> If you think there might be times when e stops your script and it
> shouldn't, you can always catch
> the error return and do the right thing from there.  If you don't know
> what will cause an error or
> you don't know what the right thing is then exiting (via the e) is
> probably your best choice.
>
> FWIW
>
> Dave
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