Shell Script Ide

sharadgana · 12-21-2004, 08:40 AM

Hi,
I am new to Linux. I have shell scripting in my engg. course. I would like to know if there are any IDE's available like ones available for java etc.. by which you can compile, debug your shellscript program.

Thanks

Sharad

masand · 12-21-2004, 08:49 AM

hi there

"gcc" has a lot of features,which u require for compilation , debugging etc etc

apart from this ,for C++ there is an IDE, Kdevelop

regards

bigearsbilly · 12-21-2004, 08:58 AM

You don't compile shell scripts, they are interpreted.

I don't think there are debuggers as such
for shell scripts.
(maybe cos they aren't really needed)

set -x does limited traces for you.

a good tip in bash or korn
put 'set -o nounset' at the top somewhere.

which will error if you reference an uninitialised variable.
can save hours of searching caused by a simple typo.

masand · 12-21-2004, 09:05 AM

i mentioned the compilers and debuggers for java etc....

u r right we do not compile shell scripts

regards

pcunix · 12-21-2004, 09:25 AM

Actually, you can compile shell scripts.

For example, see http://www.datsi.fi.upm.es/~frosal/sources/shc.html
http://www.sunmanagers.org/archives/1994/0322.html

People sometimes do this for purposes of obfuscation - hiding their "code" from curious eyes.

I think I tried one of these thingies way back when - can't recall why, probably just idle curiousity. I suppose you could even get some performance boost if the program were doing enough..

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slakmagik · 12-21-2004, 10:55 AM

As far as a debugger, I've never gotten around to trying it, but there's this:

http://bashdb.sourceforge.net/

May be right that it's overkill, though.