On 5/22/24 6:56 PM, Dan Jacobson wrote:
It seems these should both make one line "+ a=b c=b" output,for s in sh bash do $s -xc 'a=b c=$a' done I mean they give the same results, but bash splits it into two lines, so the user reading the bash -x output cannot tell if one (correct) or two (incorrect) lines were used.
There's nothing incorrect about it. The bash output clearly tells you the
order of operations, which is the whole purpose of -x.
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