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Re: An xtrace variant

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On 6/29/20 10:28 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU> writes:
>> The NetBSD sh (this time alone I believe) also has a -X (not that part, I
>> think one or two other shells also have unrelated -X options) which acts
>> just like -X, except it locks the output to stderr as it is at the time
>> the -X option is enabled (until -X is unset).  [...]
> 
> I can see significant benefits to that.  At times, I've been thwarted in
> tracing things by redirection of stderr.

exec {BASH_XTRACEFD}>/tmp/trace-file
set -x


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