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sr #109686: Make LINENO work like Zsh's LINENO

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Submitted:  Fri 17 May 2019 08:02:08 PM UTC
   
 
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Wed 22 May 2019 03:09:34 PM UTC, comment #1: 

There is an explanation of the issue, which involves how commands are constructed when using a parser generator like bison, in

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2017-03/msg00128.html

Chet Ramey <chet>
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Fri 17 May 2019 08:02:08 PM UTC, original submission:  


echo $(
  echo "hello" \
    "world" \
    "thanks" |
      cat | (
        cat -n
      ) | cat &&
      echo bye
)


Given the above script and PS4='+$BASH_SOURCE:$LINENO> ', running bash -x script gives the following output:


++script:10> echo hello world thanks
++script:11> cat
++script:12> cat -n
++script:13> cat
++script:14> echo bye
+script:9> echo 1 hello world thanks bye
1 hello world thanks bye


The values returned by LINENO are not useful when profiling a script, debugging it, or trying to compute code coverage through a testing framework like Bats.

In comparison, Zsh's LINENO returns the expected values:


+script:2> echo hello world thanks
+script:5> cat
+script:6> cat -n
+script:7> cat
+script:8> echo bye
+script:1> echo 1 hello world thanks bye
1 hello world thanks bye


Could it be possible to make Bash's LINENO variable work like Zsh's one? Or provide a new variable that would?

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