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Diffstat (limited to 'Library/Formula')
| -rw-r--r-- | Library/Formula/coreutils.rb | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Library/Formula/coreutils.rb b/Library/Formula/coreutils.rb index a3f8dd76d..0bcbc077d 100644 --- a/Library/Formula/coreutils.rb +++ b/Library/Formula/coreutils.rb @@ -46,12 +46,19 @@ class Coreutils <Formula def caveats unless use_default_names?; <<-EOS -All commands have been installed with the prefix 'g'. In order to use these -commands by default you can put add aliases to your bashrc: +All commands have been installed with the prefix 'g'. - $ cat #{prefix}/aliases >> ~/.bashrc +A file that aliases these commands to their normal names is available +and may be used in your bashrc like: -NOTE: Manpages are still referenced with the g-prefix. + source #{prefix}/aliases + +But note that sourcing these aliases will cause them to be used instead +of Bash built-in commands, which may cause problems in shell scripts. +The Bash "printf" built-in behaves differently than gprintf, for instance, +which is known to cause problems with "bash-completion". + +The man pages are still referenced with the g-prefix. EOS end end |