You can also set it for a bunch of lines then deactivate it with `set +x`. It gets rather tedious otherwise...

This is a lifesaver. Although I save the -x until I really need to see all the garbage debug output.

I find it’s usually worth the noise to catch weirdness

Thanks for the reference! Seems like a really good resource. I disagree with the reasoning about pipefail though. If I expect a command to return non-zero exit code I'd rather be explicit about it.