Auto-Evaluation of Unrecognized Debugger Commands (set auto eval)

set autoeval [ on | off ]

Evaluate unrecognized debugger commands.

Often inside the debugger, one would like to be able to run arbitrary bash commands without having to preface expressions with print or eval. Setting autoeval on will cause unrecognized debugger commands to be eval’d as a bash expression.

Note that if this is set, on error the message shown on type a bad debugger command changes from:

Undefined command: "fdafds". Try "help".

to something more bash-eval-specific such as:

/tmp/bashdb_eval_26397:2: command not found: fdafds

See also

show autoeval