What does `set -x` do?

Question

I have a shell script with the following line in it:

[ \"$DEBUG\" == \'true\' ] && set -x

Answer 1

-u: disabled by default. When activated, an error message is displayed when using an unconfigured variable.

-v: inactive by default. After activation, the original content of the information will be displayed (without variable resolution) before the information is output.

-x: inactive by default. If activated, the command content will be displayed before the command is run (after variable resolution, there is a ++ symbol).

Compare the following differences:

/ # set -v && echo $HOME
/root
/ # set +v && echo $HOME
set +v && echo $HOME
/root

/ # set -x && echo $HOME
+ echo /root
/root
/ # set +x && echo $HOME
+ set +x
/root

/ # set -u && echo $NOSET
/bin/sh: NOSET: parameter not set
/ # set +u && echo $NOSET