[Bash-completion-commits] [SCM] bash-completion branch, master, updated. 40a83563fd8ba532e080074b1de8b80121f33dfe

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Tue Dec 15 21:51:52 UTC 2009


The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 40a83563fd8ba532e080074b1de8b80121f33dfe
Author: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi>
Date:   Tue Dec 15 23:51:48 2009 +0200

    Add echo/printf and command/builtin considerations.

diff --git a/README b/README
index c2f83e9..0523c53 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -431,6 +431,10 @@ guidelines in mind:
   Sending them to the developers list usually works too, but bits are more
   likely to fall through the cracks that way compared to the tracker.
 
+- Use printf(1) instead of echo(1) for portability reasons, and be sure to
+  invoke commands that are often found aliased (such as ls or grep etc)
+  using the "command" (or "builtin") command as appropriate.
+
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