Question

When running a Unix shell script you can specify the -x option to have the shell print the actual command being executed, after all interpolation has been completed. For example, if we run this script (script.sh):

#!/usr/bin/sh

var='hello, world'
echo $var

with:

sh -x script.sh

we get

+ var='hello, world'
+ echo hello, world
hello, world  

How can I get this same behavior for a perl script?

Answer 1

Install my Devel::DumpTrace module and run

perl -d:DumpTrace my_script.pl