SET command

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1

Hi Friends,

There is an command that,

SET -x

I am confused with the SET command , i have gone through man page but still.

could anyone advise the same and necessity of the SET command ?

Regards,
Nantha.

2

All shells I worked with are case sensitive. There is no command SET , but set -x is usually used to debug scripts. You see the commands that are executed and the actual values of the variables.

3

This has nothing to do with AIX, moving the thread.

bakunin