Re: feature request

[Eric Blake]

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Please keep replies on the list, so that others may help with suggestions.

According to A P Garcia on 6/1/2006 12:54 PM:
> On 6/1/06, Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> wrote:
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>> According to A P Garcia on 5/31/2006 3:49 PM:
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>> > Bash Version: 2.05b
>> > Patch Level: 0
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>> You may want to consider upgrading; bash is at 3.1 patch level 17.
> 
> I'm just using the version that comes with Debian stable (notorious
> for being outdated).
> 
> 
>> > Description:
>> > It would be very useful to have a shell option that displays the exit
>> > code of each command when it terminates.
>>
>> Bash already has this, in the prompt.  For example, I use:
>>
>> PS1='${PIPESTATUS[*]}\$ '
>>
>> At which point I see the exit status of every command in the previous
>> pipeline.
> 
> Thanks. That's a nice trick, but it doesn't work for scripts. The
> feature would
> facilitate script debugging (bash -x foo) and logging. Both printing
> $? after every command in a script and trying a DEBUG trap are ugly
> kludges.
> 

What's wrong with a DEBUG trap?

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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