On Mon 19 April 2010 3:51:23 pm Slava Zanko wrote: > 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 > > 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=e > n > > Thanks for attention. I'm against making a mess of PATH with a crapload of symlinks. If this were to happen, it should happen at a bashrc alias level, and even then I'm still against it. -- Ryan Rix == http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com | http://rix.si/ ==
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