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.
Enhancement Request: 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). 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. 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. Is there any any relief for those working-class scripters like myself? Please advise, TT
