The stability of most unix tools' interfaces is wonderful. With the rise of tools like bash-completion, even the output of a tool's '--help' option[1] or debug

The stability of most unix tools' interfaces is wonderful. With the rise of tools like bash-completion, even the output of a tool's '--help' option[1] or debug output[2] needs to be stable. [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=bash-completion/bash-completion.git;a=blob;f=bash_completion;h=03d8942#l784 http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=bash-completion/bash-com... [2] http://david.rothlis.net/tools/case_studies/#bash_completion http://david.rothlis.net/tools/case_studies/#bash_completion