2013/7/10 Bruce Korb <bruce.k...@gmail.com>
> This seems like a lot of obtuse bother:
>
> xtrace_setting=$(
> re=$'\nxtrace[ \t]+on'
> [[ $(set -o) =~ $re ]] && echo ' -x' || echo ' +x')
>
> if there were only some magic like ${BASH_SETTING_XTRACE} or
> xtrace_setting=$(set -q xtrace) or something. Could we get
> something fairly straight forward for querying set/shopt state?
> Thank you for considering. Regards, Bruce
>shopt -qo xtrace && xtrace=1 -- Geir Hauge
