Script command
The script command reads and executes a text file containing debugger commands.
A script may contain any debugger command, including other script commands.
In the example below, script is invoked with the -q (for quiet) option.
If -q were not supplied,
debug would echo each command as it is executed.
$ cat setup
set %global_path = "libcmd/common:libexp/common"
create xyz <test.in >test.out
stop main
$ debug
debug> script -q setup
New program xyz (process p1) created
HALTED p1 [main in xyz.c]
...
EVENT [1] assigned
debug>
Scripts can be useful when you have to do the same series of steps
more than once.
However, if you don't know what that series of steps will
be the first time through, use command logging.
Command logging gives you an easy way to create a script.
The debugger will save each command as you type it
and you can edit the log file later to remove extraneous commands.
The debugger saves both the commands and the output generated
from the time you type logon until you type logoff or quit.
The output the debugger generates is written to the log file as comments,
so you can use the log file as a script -- as is -- without the debugger's output
interfering with the commands.
debug> logon logfile
debug> create h
New program h (process p1) created
HALTED p1 [main in h.c]
...
debug> stop main
EVENT [1] assigned
debug> logoff
. . .
$ cat logfile
create h
#New program h (process p1) created
#HALTED p1 [main in h.c]
#...
stop main
#EVENT [1] assigned
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