From 40a83563fd8ba532e080074b1de8b80121f33dfe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ville=20Skytt=C3=A4?= Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:51:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add echo/printf and command/builtin considerations. --- README | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index c2f83e90..0523c530 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. + -- bash-completion developers bash-completion-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org