I'm looking at my bash man page and I'm expecting to find some option that I can use to make it echo every command that it executes. The description of --verbose was pretty terse!

Is --verbose supposed to make it echo every command it executes?

My bash script script (named ws2) contains a single function (named ws) and I cannot get it to echo the commands.

Maybe I don't understand functions. When I type

bash --verbose ~/.bash/ws2

no commands are echoed. Could that be because there are no commands and only a single function?

OK,

Now I type

ws arg1 arg2

Hmm... It appears to execute. Now how do I make it echo every command?

Thanks,
Siegfried

Try using set -x or search for xtrace in the bash man pages.