---
name: "rhino-debugger"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "rhino"
version: "1.7.15-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/rhino-debugger"
---

# rhino-debugger(1)

invokes the rhino JavaScript debugger GUI

## NAME

rhino-debugger - invokes the rhino JavaScript debugger GUI

## SYNOPSIS

**rhino-debugger** *\[options\]* *script\_filename\_or\_url* *\[script\_arguments\]*

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **rhino-debugger** command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original  program does not have a manual page. It is written according to the html documentation.

**rhino-debugger** is a start script for the rhino JavaScript debugger. The Rhino JavaScript debugger is a GUI that allows debugging of interpreted JavaScript scripts run in Rhino. Note that this debugger will not work with JavaScript scripts run in the mozilla browser since Rhino is not the engine used in such environments.

## OPTIONS

- \-e *script\_source*

  Executes script\_source as a JavaScript script.

- \-f *script\_filename\_or\_url*

  Reads script\_filename\_or\_url content and execute it as a JavaScript script.

- \-opt, -O *optLevel*

  Optimizes at level optLevel, which must be an integer between 0 and 9.

- \-version *versionNumber*

  Specifies the language version to compile with. The string versionNumber must be one of 100, 110, 120, 130, or 140. See JavaScript Language Versions for more information on language versions.

- \-strict

  Enable strict mode.

## EXAMPLE

Example debugging the NervousText.js applet written in JavaScript. The example is provided in the librhino-java-doc package.

$ rhino-debugger NervousText.js

## SEE ALSO

The online documentation under http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/debugger.html

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Damien Raude-Morvan \<drazzib@debian.org\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).