Not really. I read the bash man and it doesn't trigger much. No idea why it is in a script or what it fixes. Fixing lots of little nuance shell scripting changes between the old box and new box. Regards, KAM
Axb <[email protected]> wrote: >On 06/16/2014 11:05 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: >> BTW anyone know what set -ex does in practice in a shell script? > > >https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Set-Builtin.html > >-x > Print a trace of simple commands, for commands, case commands, >select commands, and arithmetic for commands and their arguments or >associated word lists after they are expanded and before they are >executed. The value of the PS4 variable is expanded and the resultant >value is printed before the command and its expanded arguments. > > >does that help?
