bash recursive xtrace

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It is possible to make a subshell run using the same shell options set in the parent by exporting the SHELLOPTS environment variable.

In your case where X.sh and Y.sh cannot be edited, I’d create a wrapper script that simply exports SHELLOPTS before calling X.sh.

Example:

#!/bin/sh
# example X.sh which calls Y.sh
./Y.sh

.

#!/bin/sh
# example Y.sh which needs to be called using sh -eux
echo $SHELLOPTS

.

#!/bin/sh -eux
# wrapper.sh which sets the options for all sub shells
export SHELLOPTS
./X.sh

Calling X.sh directly shows that -eux options are not set in Y.sh

[lsc@aphek]$ ./X.sh 
braceexpand:hashall:interactive-comments:posix

Calling it via wrapper.sh shows that the options have propagated to the subshells.

[lsc@aphek]$ ./wrapper.sh 
+ export SHELLOPTS
+ ./x.sh
+ ./y.sh
+ echo braceexpand:errexit:hashall:interactive-comments:nounset:posix:xtrace
braceexpand:errexit:hashall:interactive-comments:nounset:posix:xtrace

Tested on GNU bash, version 3.00.15(1)-release. YMMV.

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