Wasn’t trying to be a prick- i was commenting “here’s what I’m seeing with your proposal and the presented obstacles, how would you overcome them?”

One approach could be something like “set -x” after setting a confirmation with “trap” command.

    confirm_execution() {
        echo -n "Execute $BASH_COMMAND? [y/N] "
        read response
        if [[ $response != [yY] ]]; then
            echo "Skipped."
            return 1
        fi
    }

    trap 'confirm_execution' DEBUG
    set -x
    user_command
    set +x

But that’s a wrapper script