Re: OT: Tool to work with bash script files

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On Sunday 02 May 2010 11:21 AM, john wendel wrote:
> On 05/02/2010 11:05 AM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> [snip]
>
>>
>> On occassions, I've made a change that breaks the script, and sometimes is
>> finding a matching set of code with the loops, if, cases, etc.
>>
>> In going from the latest released version of the script in 0.33 of g4l with
>> 3384 lines and 129593 bytes to 2057 lines and 85597 I have generated
>> about 30 versions with minor changes in each to make sure that everything
>> still works as before. Most of that is using functions to reduce duplicate code,
>> and using variables to reduce some code length.
>>
>> Script makes use of dialog for most of the screen output.
>>
>> Have used gedit for the editing so far, but am downloading geany to see if it
>> provides more. Gedit has some features that make it nice to work with other
>> languages.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> Have you looked at the bash debugger?<http://bashdb.sourceforge.net>
>

That is a very good recommendation. You should try it out. And as for 
editors if you are familiar with them, nothing beats emacs/vim. To 
locally keep track of versions, I would urge you to try out git. Its an 
amazing tool. :)

> Regards,
>
> John

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