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Re: Document that set -v inside case statements is special
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: Document that set -v inside case statements is special |
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Tue, 20 Apr 2021 21:33:47 -0400 |
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 09:25:04PM -0400, Dmitry Goncharov via Bug reports for
the GNU Bourne Again SHell wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 2:37 PM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
>
> > With case, or any other compound command, the entire compound command is
> > read from the script and parsed, before bash can start running it. So, by
> > the time the set -v is executed, the entire case command has already been
> > read.
>
>
> Is not this what op wanted to be documented?
It's already documented.
-v Print shell input lines as they are read.
That's what it does. That's all that needs to be said in the official
documentation.