Basic bash script template for debugging while running another script via cron. It is intended to output time to a text file so that unwatched, long running scripts ...

A recent post about debugging constructs surprised me. There were quite a few comments about how you didn’t need a debugger, as long as you had printf. For that matter, we’ve all debugged systems ...

It looks as if it's trying to create the file, even though the file already exists, rather than update it. Also looks as if it compares to how many lines should be in the file, rather than how many ...