For years I’ve been adding a line in bash scripts to echo out a variable here and there. It’s funny how you just accept a workflow like that as “the way.” But when using an IDE for objected oriented languages I’ve always just expected breakpoints and the ability to watch variables when running code from within the IDE. But it never even occurred to me to do that with bash scripts. Then IsaacH at the office told me about an IDE that does that. Looking inside the IDE, it’s piping commands to bashdb. Soooo, bashdb is kinda’ like gdb. You can set breakpoints and print the content of variables when…