Introducing option to trace commands on and off

[Khan Smith]

   Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 at 4:15 PM
   From: "Dennis Williamson" <dennistwilliamson@gmail.com>
   To: "Khan Smith" <khansmith@mail.com>
   Cc: "help-bash" <help-bash@gnu.org>
   Subject: Re: Introducing option to trace commands on and off
   On Wed, Oct 13, 2021, 11:07 AM Khan Smith <khansmith@mail.com> wrote:
   >
   > Have been spending some time debugging a script that is sourced from
   my
   > .bashrc
   >
   > I am using "set -x" to trace the commands but would l/ike to have an
   > option to turn the command tracing
   > on and off.
   >
   > Wauld like to find a neat way to do this.
   >
   set +x turns tracing off.

   I am sourcing a number of scripts. Would "set -x" apply to the current
   file or to
   everything?  Where is best to set the command?  In the topmost srcipt?