<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="SGML-Tools 1.0.9"> <TITLE>BASH Programming - Introduction HOW-TO: When something goes wrong (debugging)</TITLE> <LINK HREF="Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO-14.html" REL=next> <LINK HREF="Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO-12.html" REL=previous> <LINK HREF="Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html#toc13" REL=contents> </HEAD> <BODY> <A HREF="Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO-14.html">Next</A> <A HREF="Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO-12.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html#toc13">Contents</A> <HR> <H2><A NAME="s13">13. When something goes wrong (debugging)</A> </H2> <H2><A NAME="ss13.1">13.1 Ways Calling BASH </A> </H2> <P> A nice thing to do is to add on the first line <BLOCKQUOTE><CODE> <PRE> #!/bin/bash -x </PRE> </CODE></BLOCKQUOTE> <P> This will produce some intresting output information <HR> <A HREF="Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO-14.html">Next</A> <A HREF="Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO-12.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html#toc13">Contents</A> </BODY> </HTML>