Re: Echoing commands

[Greg Wooledge]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 07:31:13PM +0200, Angelo Borsotti wrote:
> "set -x" makes the ensuing commands be printed, but prefixed
> with "+ ", which makes the result look ugly, not to mention that
> the following "set +x" is echoed too (there are hacks to suppress
> the "set +x" output, but they are just hacks).

If all you want is to remove the "+ ", you can simply set the PS4
variable to an empty string.

>       set -o log
>       cat tmp >tmp1        # or any other command
>       set -o nolog
> 
> producing the output on the console
> 
>        cat tmp >tmp1

If you want to retain redirections in the -x output, that's a whole
different issue.  There is currently no way to do that.  Chet would
have to implement something.