-x is not useful

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From: Roland McGrath
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1989 03:54

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The -x option is not implemented usefully in bash 0.99.
It should echo the expanded version of each line to be
executed.  As it is, running bash -vx on a script just
gets you a double-echoed script, not any useful information.

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