Just set/unset xv per line eg
Code:
set -xv; a=(a "b 2" c); set +xv
Incidentally, there's 2 ways to time a script
Code:
# just time
time ./t2.sh
a
b 2
c
real 0m0.003s
user 0m0.001s
sys 0m0.003s
# time & mem & cpu & ....
\time ./t2.sh
a
b 2
c
0.00user 0.00system 0:00.00elapsed 50%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 4800maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+339minor)pagefaults 0swaps