'info dircolors' properly mentions that you should use: eval "$(dircolors ...)"
but there is no mention in 'dircolors --help' or 'man dircolors' about the proper way to use it with eval. I mention this because the 'ssh-agent' man page has a bug: it suggests: eval `ssh-agent -s` which BREAKS if any of the environment variables thus output contain whitespace. It should be: eval "`ssh-agent -s`" (or modern $(), rather than ``). Since not everyone bothers to read 'info dircolors', and there are lots of sites out there with bad advice that lack quoting, we probably ought to make the --help/man page more explicit on safe usage patterns. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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