Re: ls

[Paul Eggert]

"Alfred M\. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:

>    The command in question might be run anywhere (the documentation
>    talks about "scripts").  That would include /tmp.
>
> `rm *' might also be run from anywhere, hence why don't get it.

It's reasonable for a script to do 'eval "`dircolors`"', and this is
in the manual.  Scripts might be run in any directory, including /tmp,
so it's reasonable to recommend a safe way to invoke dircolors.

On the other hand, scripts normally don't (and shouldn't) do 'rm *' in
random directories, and we don't recommend that.