From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 13:31:45 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: * NEWS: Mention that one should eval "`dircolors`" rather than
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* NEWS: Mention that one should eval "`dircolors`" rather than
`dircolors`.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 202dc1f8c2..0fbfab8cba 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
   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