[Bash-completion-commits] [SCM] bash-completion branch, master, updated. 5b54c41de55300fb7c28b435b0e7a595ab1cd7d9

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Tue Nov 3 20:49:30 UTC 2009


The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit a58062400d2c7b0f86646fba72a5f4054066020b
Author: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi>
Date:   Tue Nov 3 22:14:44 2009 +0200

    Note POSIX spec.

diff --git a/README b/README
index c44d23b..c2f83e9 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -409,8 +409,11 @@ guidelines in mind:
   have a command with the same name.
 
   In particular, do not use GNU extensions to commands like sed and
-  awk if you can write your code another way. If you really must use
-  them, however, do feel free to do so.
+  awk if you can write your code another way. If you really, REALLY must
+  use them, do so if there's no other sane way to do what you're doing.
+  The "Shell and Utilities" volume of the POSIX specification is a good
+  starting reference for portable use of various utilities, see
+  http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
 
 - Read the existing source code for examples of how to solve
   particular problems. Read the bash man page for details of all the

-- 
bash-completion



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