Using the Debugger As a Shell

Summary

In this chapter you’ve discovered how to use the Perl debugger as a shell for executing arbitrary and varied commands, as well as how to call the system shell from within a debugger session. You’ve seen how this can be useful in experimenting with and exploring the different possibilities which may be available, to arrive at the best coding solution for a particular set of circumstances.

In the next chapter we’ll take a look at debugging a plain CGI program locally, using the debugger inside a mod_perl enabled apache web server. Well also learn how to approach debugging a remote Perl program running on a different machine altogether.