On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 01:51 +0300, Slava Zanko wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 symlinks0007684a-0010long-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. Actually, that's not a completely new idea -- Multics used links in exactly this fashion decades ago, so that you could type the long or short version of command names: list ls change_wdir cwd print_wdir pwd print_attach_table pat last_message_time lmt ...etc... However, the long names fell into disuse quickly, because ... no one wants to type that much. I can almost guarantee the same thing would happen now. If you wanted to implement this, I would recommend using aliases rather than symlinks. This is Open Source -- give it a whirl and see how you like it, and if you do, then package it up and see whether its useful to others. -Chris -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
