Re: RFE: capture command AND output for display and/or redirection

[todd . dsm]

On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 4:41:04 PM UTC-5, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/23/2013 01:07 PM, todd.dsm@gmail.com wrote:
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> > Guys, I found the part in the manual about submitting bugs but not requests 
> > for enhancement. If this is not the right place, let me know.
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> 
> A missing feature is merely a different form of bug, so yes, this is the
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> right place.
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> > 
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> > Enhancement Request:
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> > Bash could use a standardized method of capturing a command AND its output 
> > for display in the terminal and/or redirection (to wherever, file, what 
> > have you).
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> 'set -x' is standardized by POSIX, and portable to more than just bash.
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>  Additionally, the DEBUG trap can provide you bash-specific additional
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> hooks into logging, at the expense of no longer being standardized.
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> > 
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> > Is this silly = yes. But, I have 2 words to disable any similar arguments: 
> > 'government work'. The white collars may never come around to our way of 
> > thinking, or more appropriately, knowing. Until that happens some goofy 
> > reporting must be used.
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> > 
> 
> > echoing a command, then executing is just duplication; also silly. trap is 
> > cool, (EG: trap 'printf %s\\n "$BASH_COMMAND" >&2' DEBUG) - but in the case 
> > of redirection to a file, the variable is first printed literally, then 
> > expanded; this fails too.
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> > 
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> > Is there any any relief for those working-class scripters like myself?
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> Yes, and what you want already exists.
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> Read this thread for more details:
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> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-bash/2013-04/msg00031.html
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> In particular, that thread points out:
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> http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/050
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Omitting the set -x from the original post was my error:
1) I wouldn't live without it for debugging purposes. 
2) set x- creates a lot of "noise" on the screen the suites cannot live with.

Is there no foundation for this request to make our lives bit more comfortable?