X-Git-Url: https://diplodocus.org/git/nmh/blobdiff_plain/2dae2af4a48285ace8c3439b5404df0d07393b4e..318ee655d8080cbc1e8edc573ca91672659b2dee:/docs/COMPLETION-BASH?ds=sidebyside

diff --git a/docs/COMPLETION-BASH b/docs/COMPLETION-BASH
index b5bdfbc4..3cb2fae0 100644
--- a/docs/COMPLETION-BASH
+++ b/docs/COMPLETION-BASH
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 # Copyright 2003 "Wade Richards" <wade@wabyn.net>
 # Permission granted to redistribute under the BSD license
 
+[ "$BASH_COMPLETION" ]  ||  echo "ERROR: COMPLETION-BASH is not intended to be \
+sourced directly, but rather added to a bash-completion package installation."
+
 have show &&
 _nmh()
 {