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Re: Log files: location and description

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On 10/08/2017 07:38 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
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> On Sun, Oct 08, 2017 at 07:31:23AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> On 10/07/2017 03:01 PM, David Wright wrote:
>>> On Sat 07 Oct 2017 at 09:36:37 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
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> [...]
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> No idea about the other things, but:
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>> I don't understand.
>> According to the man page neither update-grub nor grub-mkconfig have
>> an "-x" option.
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> It's a shell feature: if you do "set -x" in a shell script, all the
> commands in the current shell get transcribed (to stdout, I think).

It didn't provide any additional details when running update-grub.

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> In a shell, type "help set" to learn a lot (better "help set | less").

I learned I need to study more ;/
It appears to be a summary of a more complete document.
What would it be? Is it on the web?
Thanks

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> So if you sneak a "set -x" into said shell scripts you get to see
> what they are "thinking". Very useful for debugging purposes.
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> Cheers
> - -- tomás
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Log files: location and description Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-10-07 16:40 +0200
  Re: Log files: location and description David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-10-07 22:10 +0200
    Re: HD device name assignments (was: Log files: location and  description) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-10-07 22:30 +0200
      Re: HD device name assignments Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-10-08 14:40 +0200
    Re: Log files: location and description <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-08 14:40 +0200
      Re: Log files: location and description Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-10-08 16:00 +0200
        Re: Log files: location and description <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-08 16:50 +0200
          Re: Log files: location and description Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-10-08 17:10 +0200
      Re: Log files: location and description Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-10-09 15:10 +0200
        Re: Log files: location and description <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-09 18:10 +0200
    Re: Log files: location and description Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-10-08 14:40 +0200
      Re: Log files: location and description David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-10-08 22:40 +0200
    Re: Log files: location and description Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-10-08 15:50 +0200
  Debian-installer writes /dev/ references in grub.cfg, was Re: Log  files: location and description David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-10-09 02:10 +0200

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