$BASH_XTRACEFD: Target for Bash Tracing Output
$BASH_XTRACEFD is an integer to a file descriptor, where Bash’s trace output should be stored.
By default, the output is sent to STDERR (i.e. BASH_XTRACEFD=2).
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