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Appendix A: dbx Commands

help help Explains how to display the help ﬁle in your favorite editor.

help section Shows this help section. dbx displays the ﬁle using the

command name given by the dbx $pager variable. (By

default, it uses more.) A useful technique is to set the$pager

variable to a text editor like vi(1).

history Prints the commands in the history list.

ignore Prints a list of all signals ignored.

ignore {signal | all}

Instructs dbx to ignore the speciﬁed signal. All ignored

signals are passed to your program normally. If you use the

keywordall rather than giving a speciﬁc signal, dbx ignores

all signals.

kill Kills the active process.

kill pid ... Kills the active process(es) whose PIDs are speciﬁed.

list Lists $listwindow lines beginning at the current line.

list exp Lists $listwindow lines starting with the line number given

by the expression exp. The expression may be any valid

expression that evaluates to an integer value.

list exp1:exp2 Lists exp2 lines, beginning at line exp1.

list exp1,exp2 Lists all source between line exp1 and line exp2 inclusive.

list func Lists $listwindow lines starting at procedure func.

list func:exp Lists exp2 lines, beginning at func.

list func,exp Lists all source between func and exp, inclusive.

listobj Lists dynamic shared objects being used. The base

application is ﬁrst in the list.

next [n] Executes the speciﬁed number of lines of source code,

stepping over procedures. If you do not provide an

argument, next executes one line. If next encounters any

breakpoints, even in procedures that it steps over, it

immediately stops execution.