Is there a quick and dirty way to not only log the output of a shell file but the commands used inside as well?
For example:
whoami > who.dmp
would output a file that contained something like:
my_username
For a longer shell file, what is the most effective way to display the command that caused the result in the log file as well
Ex:
log.txt
###############
echo whoami <- I want this to show in the file as well
my_username
time <- I want this to show in the file as well
real 0m0.00s
user 0m0.00s
sys 0m0.00s
Is there a way to do this without hard-coding exporting the command into the output file every single time?
Best Answer
Using the shell built-in
set -x
is probably the cheap-and-dirty way to do this. In shell scripts you will often see a line like:Which someone left behind by just commenting it out. I think you could use that at the interactive command line, but you may not like what it does there.