Re: sh vs. bash -xc 'a=b c=$a'

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/22/24 6:56 PM, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> It seems these should both make one line "+ a=b c=b" output,
>
> for s in sh bash
> do $s -xc 'a=b c=$a'
> done
>
> I mean they give the same results, but bash splits it into
> two lines, so the user reading the bash -x output cannot tell
> if one (correct) or two (incorrect) lines were used.

There's nothing incorrect about it. The bash output clearly tells you the
order of operations, which is the whole purpose of -x.

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