- perldoc DBI
output appended to that file. If the name begins with a number followed by an equal sign ("="), then the number and the equal sign are stripped off from the name, and the number is used to set the trace level. For example: DBI_TRACE=1=dbitrace.log perl your_test_script.pl On Unix‐like systems using a Bourne‐like shell, you can do this easily on the command line: DBI_TRACE=2 perl your_test_script.pl