output shell commands to screen 1

[Hondy]

Hi

Can anyone tell me how to output the shell commands to the screen?

I have some script but they run silently, i want to be able to debug them so i'd like the commands to appear on screen as they are executed.

in windows I would use @echo on in the batch file, is there am equivalent in Linux shell?

Thanks

 

[Hondy]

ok so it seems to be:
bash -v script.sh

It doesn't help me though! I'm getting command not found when the script tries to run a telnet command :S

my apache install is in usr/local/apache2, could it be it should be installed somewhere else?

Thanks

 

[geirendre]

Have you tried this?

http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/sect_02_03.html

 

[KenCunningham]

Have you tried echo "Now running line <whatever>" in your script? This will print the relevant info. to screen.

I want to be good, is that not enough?

 

[Hondy]

ok Ken, I will try that.

Is it likely that I will get "command not found" if there isn't enough permissions to carry it out?

Thanks

 

[Hondy]

apologies geirendre I never saw your post.

-x looks like a good solution. I can't try this until tomorrow now but can you tell me if this will do a step by step confirmation like you can do in a windows batch file?

 

[Hondy]

geirendre - thanks for the link, bash -x script.sh was the one.

It turned out that the echo "words here";/ had a hidden space after the ;/ that caused it to return a " " and so a command not found. Nice one!