On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Geir Hauge <[email protected]> wrote: > 2013/7/10 Bruce Korb <[email protected]> > >> 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 >
For the single letter options you can also use the standard: case $- in *x*) ...
