Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> writes: > 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?
I do have BASH_ENV set, to ~/.bashrc. I need that so that my scripts can use my .bashrc customizations. Though I do know that I haven't gotten the Bash startup scripts set correctly for the effects I want; fixing that would cut most but by no means all of the "Bash initializations" listed above. Dale
