So is there a way that I can echo commands in bash? Unfortunately a search for 'bash command echo' has a low S:N. An example for clarity: should produce something like: I could always explicitly echo the commands I'm interested in, but it seems like there should be a flag I can set in stty or some marker like @command. Any ideas?

Try this:

Sweet. All this time and I didn't know set could be used like that... revoke my geek license!

set -v works great, but after digging some more, set -x is precisely what I need.

Thanks!

To present a second way, without switching autoecho on and off:
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use: ``
instead of ""/''

`` means executing the thing between these two (axon de vu? (don't really know how they're called) )
and they work with pipes and all that funstuff.

eg: echo `ls -la | grep .c`

or:

for a in `seq 0 100`
do
...
done

(seq counts from 0 to 100 in this case and prints out this sequence)

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Ronny

Is there any way to make it so the set +o call isn't echo'd?

Quote: Original post by hydroo
`` means executing the thing between these two (axon de vu? (don't really know how they're called) )
and they work with pipes and all that funstuff.

They're called backticks. The name you're thinking about the accent acute and and accent grave, which are slightly different symbols.