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+The BASH Debugger Project contains the most comprehensive source-code debugger
+for bash that has been written. It has a similar command interface as gdb.
+
+The purpose of the BASH debugger is to help you catch bugs in the act:
+
+ * Start your script, specifying anything that might affect its behavior.
+ * Make your script stop on specified conditions.
+ * Examine what has happened, when your script has stopped.
+ * Change things in your script, so you can experiment with correcting the
+ effects of one bug and go on to learn about another.
+
+Read the INSTALL file in the source directory for instructions if you wish to
+enable readarray support. readarray speeds up initial loading of large scripts.
+