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.

  • Document t... 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
    • Re: D... Greg Wooledge
      • R... Dmitry Goncharov via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell
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