Re: [Help-bash] bash with the -x option

[Dennis Williamson]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 7:40 AM, Chet Ramey <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 9/10/15 8:37 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> > Also, buried deep in the bottom of the man page's section on the set
> > builtin, is this sentence:
> >
> >   The options can also be specified as arguments to an invocation of
> >   the shell.
> >
> > I thought there was some wording to that effect in the INVOCATION section
> > as well, but I couldn't find it.
>
> OPTIONS
>        All  of  the  single-character shell options documented in the
> descrip-
>        tion of the set builtin command can be used as options when  the
> shell
>        is invoked.
>
> That same wording is at
> --
> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
>                  ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
> Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    address@hidden
> http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
>
>
That same wording is at
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Invoking-Bash

So that kind of accounts for the "INVOCATION" tie-in.

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