On Wednesday 18 February 2009 19:06:58 Eric Sandeen wrote: [...] > I mean, "cat" is short for "concatenate" which some future concatenation > utility may also wish to use. Not only is "concatenate" a very common > word, "cat" is a very simple abbrevation which may clash with "catalog" > or "categorize" - Shall we also change its name? Where does this stop? > > -Eric > > p.s. /usr/bin/the-utility-formerly-known-as-calendar does have a certain > ring to it though I suppose. All the core shell utilities should be renamed "core-util-foo", especially all those ones with two letter names like "cp" and "mv". Not to mention common words like "mount" ... -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
