On 6/29/20 10:28 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote: > Robert Elz <k...@munnari.oz.au> writes: >> The NetBSD sh (this time alone I believe) also has a -X (not that part, I >> think one or two other shells also have unrelated -X options) which acts >> just like -X, except it locks the output to stderr as it is at the time >> the -X option is enabled (until -X is unset). [...] > > I can see significant benefits to that. At times, I've been thwarted in > tracing things by redirection of stderr.
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