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

[Michał Piotrowski]

2010/4/20 Bernd Stramm <bernd.stramm at gmail.com>:
> 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.

True

>
> 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.

Indeed :)

>
>> >
>> > 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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