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xtrace output goes to stderr, so you could redirect stderr to /dev/null:

ikwtd() { echo do stuff } 2> /dev/null 

If you still want to see the errors from the commands run inside the functions, you could do

ikwtd() ( { set +x; } 2> /dev/null # silently disable xtrace echo do stuff ) 

Note the use of (...) instead of {...} to provide a local scope for that function via a subshell. bash, since version 4.4 now supports local - like in the Almquist shell to make options local to the function (similar to set -o localoptions in zsh), so you could avoid the subshell by doing:

ikwtd() { { local -; set +x; } 2> /dev/null # silently disable xtrace echo do stuff } 

An alternative for bash 4.0 to 4.3 would be to use the $BASH_XTRACEFD variable and have a dedicated file descriptor open on /dev/null for that:

exec 9> /dev/null set -x ikwtd() { { local BASH_XTRACEFD=9; } 2> /dev/null # silently disable xtrace echo do stuff } 

Since bash lacks the ability to mark a fd with the close-on-exec flag, that has the side effect of leaking that fd to other commands though.

See also this locvar.sh which contains a few functions to implement local scope for variables and functions in POSIX scripts and also provides with trace_fn and untrace_fn functions to make them xtraced or not.

xtrace output goes to stderr, so you could redirect stderr to /dev/null:

i_know_what_this_does() { echo do stuff } 2> /dev/null 

If you still want to see the errors from the commands run inside the functions, you could do

i_know_what_this_does() ( { set +x; } 2> /dev/null # silently disable xtrace echo do stuff ) 

Note the use of (...) instead of {...} to provide a local scope for that function via a subshell. bash, since version 4.4 now supports local - like in the Almquist shell to make options local to the function (similar to set -o localoptions in zsh), so you could avoid the subshell by doing:

i_know_what_this_does() { { local -; set +x; } 2> /dev/null # silently disable xtrace echo do stuff } 

An alternative for bash 4.0 to 4.3 would be to use the $BASH_XTRACEFD variable and have a dedicated file descriptor open on /dev/null for that:

exec 9> /dev/null set -x i_know_what_this_does() { { local BASH_XTRACEFD=9; } 2> /dev/null # silently disable xtrace echo do stuff } 

Since bash lacks the ability to mark a fd with the close-on-exec flag, that has the side effect of leaking that fd to other commands though.

See also this locvar.sh which contains a few functions to implement local scope for variables and functions in POSIX scripts and also provides with trace_fn and untrace_fn functions to make them xtraced or not.

xtrace output goes to stderr, so you could redirect stderr to /dev/null:

ikwtd() { echo do stuff } 2> /dev/null 

If you still want to see the errors from the commands run inside the functions, you could do

ikwtd() ( { set +x; } 2> /dev/null # silently disable xtrace echo do stuff ) 

Note the use of (...) instead of {...} to provide a local scope for that function via a subshell. bash, since version 4.4 now supports local - like in the Almquist shell to make options local to the function (similar to set -o localoptions in zsh), so you could avoid the subshell by doing:

ikwtd() { { local -; set +x; } 2> /dev/null # silently disable xtrace echo do stuff } 

See also this locvar.sh which contains a few functions to implement local scope for variables and functions in POSIX scripts and also provides with trace_fn and untrace_fn functions to make them xtraced or not.

xtrace output goes to stderr, so you could redirect stderr to /dev/null:

ikwtd() { echo do stuff } 2> /dev/null 

If you still want to see the errors from the commands run inside the functions, you could do

ikwtd() ( { set +x; } 2> /dev/null # silently disable xtrace echo do stuff ) 

Note the use of (...) instead of {...} to provide a local scope for that function via a subshell. bash, since version 4.4 now supports local - like in the Almquist shell to make options local to the function (similar to set -o localoptions in zsh), so you could avoid the subshell by doing:

ikwtd() { { local -; set +x; } 2> /dev/null # silently disable xtrace echo do stuff } 

An alternative for bash 4.0 to 4.3 would be to use the $BASH_XTRACEFD variable and have a dedicated file descriptor open on /dev/null for that:

exec 9> /dev/null set -x ikwtd() { { local BASH_XTRACEFD=9; } 2> /dev/null # silently disable xtrace echo do stuff } 

Since bash lacks the ability to mark a fd with the close-on-exec flag, that has the side effect of leaking that fd to other commands though.

See also this locvar.sh which contains a few functions to implement local scope for variables and functions in POSIX scripts and also provides with trace_fn and untrace_fn functions to make them xtraced or not.

xtrace output goes to stderr, so you could redirect stderr to /dev/null:

ikwtd() { echo do stuff } 2> /dev/null 

If you still want to see the errors from the commands run inside the functions, you could do

ikwtd() ( { set +x; } 2> /dev/null # silently disable xtrace echo do stuff ) 

(note the use of (...) instead of {...} to provide a local scope for that function via a subshell).

See also this locvar.sh which contains a few functions to implement local scope for variables and functions in POSIX scripts and also provides with trace_fn and untrace_fn functions to make them xtraced or not.

xtrace output goes to stderr, so you could redirect stderr to /dev/null:

ikwtd() { echo do stuff } 2> /dev/null 

If you still want to see the errors from the commands run inside the functions, you could do

ikwtd() ( { set +x; } 2> /dev/null # silently disable xtrace echo do stuff ) 

Note the use of (...) instead of {...} to provide a local scope for that function via a subshell. bash, since version 4.4 now supports local - like in the Almquist shell to make options local to the function (similar to set -o localoptions in zsh), so you could avoid the subshell by doing:

ikwtd() { { local -; set +x; } 2> /dev/null # silently disable xtrace echo do stuff } 

See also this locvar.sh which contains a few functions to implement local scope for variables and functions in POSIX scripts and also provides with trace_fn and untrace_fn functions to make them xtraced or not.