J. Bakshi: > > I have upgraded a very old lenny server to squeeze. > The shell scripts are now malfunctioning; specially the > loop statement. Moreover "sh -x <script>" are malfunctioning > but :bash -x <script>" are running fine. what actually I am missing > here ? I have tried both with #!/bin/bash and #!/bin/sh but the same > problem with "sh -x <script>"
/bin/sh points to dash nowadays. You need to either run "bash -x <script>" or use "set -x" in the script. J. -- If I could have anything in the world it would have to be more money. [Agree] [Disagree] <http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html>
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