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sr #110807: Builtin set -x causes some commands not to be executed

Submitter:  LGTR <lgtr>
Submitted:  Fri 30 Dec 2022 04:33:37 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  3 - Normal Status:  Invalid
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Sat 28 Jan 2023 01:59:03 AM UTC, comment #2: 

That is how xtrace should work, it always writes to the current stderr.

If you want to xtrace a script that uses *$(2>&1) (e.g. scripts that use the *dialog utility), you can always export BASH_XTRACEFD set to a file descriptor that duplicates stderr; e.g. in your case:


(exec {BASH_XTRACEFD}>&2; export BASH_XTRACEFD; bash -x ./echobravo.sh)


Or you can write *exec {BASH_XTRACEFD}>&2* at the top of your script.

Emanuele Torre <emanuele6>
Sat 07 Jan 2023 08:54:24 PM UTC, comment #1: 

You explicitly ask for the tracing output to be included in the command substitution output (2>&1 after the subshell command). Why would it not end up as part of the value of the variable?

Chet Ramey <chet>
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Fri 30 Dec 2022 04:33:37 PM UTC, original submission:  

Script reproducing the issue with GNU bash 5.2.15:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#echobravo.sh
bravo="2"
foo=$( ( dd if=/dev/null bs=1024 count=10 2>/dev/null | cat 1>/dev/null ) 2>&1 )
printf 'foo is \"%s\"\n' "$foo"
if [ ! "$foo" ]; then echo "bravo is $bravo"; fi


First run the script normally:

$ bash +x echobravo.sh
foo is ""
bravo is 2


With '-x':

$ bash -x echobravo.sh
+ bravo=2
+ foo='++ dd if=/dev/null bs=1024 count=10
++ cat'
+ printf 'foo is \"%s\"\n' '++ dd if=/dev/null bs=1024 count=10
++ cat'
foo is "++ dd if=/dev/null bs=1024 count=10
++ cat"
+ '[' '!' '++ dd if=/dev/null bs=1024 count=10
++ cat' ']


bash manual does not mention any command or result modification because of the '-x' builtin:
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Set-Builtin.html#:~:text=they%20are%20read.-,%2Dx,-Print%20a%20trace

LGTR <lgtr>

 

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