Bash: Automate Verbose Error Loggin in Drupal
Turning on verbose error logging in Drupal is an important tool for diagnosing any number of problems. Unless you have the PHP syntax memorized, though, it's a bit of a pain to enable. Even if you keep the $config line commented out in your settings.php file, opening a file editor every time you need to turn it on can also be a pain. Here's a short Bash script that will automatically edit your settings.php file and turn on verbose error logging..
I have a real knack for hitting the WSOD on my localhost--usually when juggling databases and code in between remote and local. As a result, I like to keep verbose error logging commented out in my settings.php. It's generally the last line in the file, somewhere after the $databases array. For privacy reasons I won't screen grab the actual file, but the commented line (for both D8 and D9) should be this: