It’d be nice to be able to set shell options for all commands in a given job/workflow/config file. This was asked already in https://discuss.circleci.com/t/config-for-all-shell-commands/10199 (which is locked), but the answer there:
https://discuss.circleci.com/t/config-for-all-shell-commands/10199/3
isn’t quite right: CircleCI added -eo pipefail to the default options, but the default options themselves are still not configurable. E.g., if I wanted to use the -x option, I would need to manually go through every one of the commands in my config file and add it as an option.