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Subject: Re: following a variable's value.
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On 10/18/2015 04:19 AM, ZyX wrote:

> What do you mean by “inserted queries”? Some kind of “debugging printf”? 

Sure, things like:

     echo "line 793: REPLY is $REPLY" >> /dev/pts/1

How convenient it would be to have a running tab on a variable.