bash - not running some commands while running others?

Unable to figure out what's wrong here, but ran into a weird issue. Basically some commands in the script work and some don't. The script is run on Jenkins. Here is part of my script -

#!/bin/bash  set -x  echo -e "\n\n\n[$(basename "$0")] PWD: $PWD"    if [[ -z $SOME_VAR ]]; then    echo -e "\n[$(basename "$0")] Removing the folder..."    rm -rf folderToRemove # ❌ The folder is not removed even when control comes into this branch ❌  fi    # Update submodules  echo -e "\n[$(basename "$0")] Recursively updating submodules..."  git submodule update --init --recursive --jobs 5 --progress # ❌ Cannot see the output from this line ❌  ...  ...  ...  echo -e "\n[$(basename "$0")] wf-react status - "  git submodule status --recursive # ❌ Cannot see the output from this line ❌      echo -e "[$(basename "$0")] complete"  set +x  

When I run the above script, I can see the output from echo commands, but the important commands like rm -rf... or git ... don't seem to run at all. Added comments with ❌ in the code above.

Any idea why some commands are not working and some are working? Any help is greatly appreciated. Let me know if you need more information please.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66003115/bash-not-running-some-commands-while-running-others February 02, 2021 at 11:06AM