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Re: An xtrace variant

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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.

Dale

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