On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 03:00:27PM -0500, Dale R. Worley wrote: > > Tracing with -x prints a lot of (usually) useless lines. > > $ bash -x ./tt > [300+ lines of Bash initializations] > + echo 'Now in tt.' > Now in tt.
Why does it do this? Have you got BASH_ENV set to something in your environment? It's not supposed to do that, under normal conditions. unicorn:~$ bash -x ./foo + echo 'I am foo' I am foo