2 Getting in and out

This chapter discusses how to start the BASH debugger, and how to get out of it. The essentials are:

• type ‘bash --debugger script-name’ or ‘bashdb script-name’ to start the BASH debugger. Or...
• type ‘bashdb -c command string’ to give a string to run under the debugger. Or ..
• modify your program to enter the debugger at a particular point: source ../bashdb-trace and _Dbg_debugger.
• type quit or C-d inside the debugger to exit.

There are also two front-ends available as well. An emacs front-end which has bashdb support among others is https://github.com/rocky/emacs-dbgr/wiki.