Shell commands like to OS/2 shell (or MS PowerShell)

[Bernd Stramm]

On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 02:06 +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 2010/4/20 Slava Zanko <slavazanko at gmail.com>:
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> > Hi folk,
> >
> > I want to propose new idea about names of command line utilites...
> >
> > For example, all present utilites have sence just for guru's (ls, rm,
> > fsck etc), but for novies it's hard to use. Is good idea to symlink'ing
> > (shell aliasing) these and much more utilz to another names? Like to:
> >
> > ls -> filesystem.list
> > rm -> filesystem.remove
> > fsck.* -> filesystem.check.*
> > mkfs.* -> filesystem.make.*
> > convert -> media.convert.image
> > mencoder -> media.convert.video
> > oggenc -> media.convert.audio.ogg
> > mplayer -> media.player.*
> >
> > etc
> 
> I really don't know why I like this idea... seems to be pretty cool.
> 
> I wouldn't use it day to day shall use, but it could be IMHO useful in
> shell scripts when:
> - it will be implemented in all unix os'es
> - it will standardize program parameters
> 
> Let's imagine such situation - you need to write portable shell script
> (I know "portable" and "shell script" is a bad joke ;)) across many
> os'es:
> - on OS A you need to use program foo with flag --bar
> - on OS B you need to use program bas with --foo flag
> 
> It could be standarised with
> do.that.thing --most-popular-flag-that-do-the-trick
> 

Woudn't work, everyone would want their own standard. Again.

Also with these really long names, by the time you're finished typing a
command (and fixing all the typos), you have forgotten why you wanted to
do it.

> >
> > This idea will be easy to realize (need to make at first time one rpm
> > package with lot of symlinks... and then long-time work in all present
> > rpm-packages for respect this technology). But we need for
> > standartization of alias names... in ideal case, standartization must
> > touch all distros (new standard?)
> >
> > P.S. This not my idea. Originally from:
> > http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.linux.org.ru%2Fforum%2Ftalks%2F4797323&sl=ru&tl=en
> >
> > Thanks for attention.
> >
> > - --
> > WBR, Slavaz.
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