Re: turning on file+line for functions with shopt -s extdebug gives error

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/24/19 9:39 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
> This is odd....I wanted to turn on the file+line numbers on the function
> defs...thought it might help the debugger as it gets confused when
> functions are already in memory, but when I did that, now I get
> a weird error on login:
> /usr/share/bashdb/init/require.sh: line 17: _Dbg_requires: unbound variable

Setting debugging mode in one of the startup files is an alternate way
to start the bash debugger, equivalent to invoking bash with --debugger.
It's been that way since the debugging support was introduced in bash-3.0.

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