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

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 20 06:42:53 UTC 2010


On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Slava Zanko <slavazanko at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi folk,
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> I want to propose new idea about names of command line utilites...
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> 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:
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> 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

Sounds like a waste of time ...


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