That dircolors quoting problem deserves a NEWS entry, so I installed this:
2004-12-19 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* NEWS: Mention that one should eval "`dircolors`" rather than
`dircolors`.
--- NEWS 15 Dec 2004 16:03:12 -0000 1.256
+++ NEWS 19 Dec 2004 13:31:45 -0000 1.257
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS
cut's --output-delimiter=D option works with abutting byte ranges.
+ dircolors's documentation now recommends that shell scripts eval
+ "`dircolors`" rather than `dircolors`, to avoid shell expansion pitfalls.
+
du no longer segfaults when a subdirectory of an operand
directory is removed while du is traversing that subdirectory.
Since the bug was in the underlying fts.c module, it also affected
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