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 <g...@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.