2010/4/20 Bernd Stramm <bernd.stramm@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 02:06 +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote: >> Hi, >> >> 2010/4/20 Slava Zanko <slavazanko@xxxxxxxxx>: >> > -----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 >> >> 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. >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) >> > Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ >> > >> > iEYEARECAAYFAkvM3mYACgkQb3oGR6aVLppnNQCeNDVZS37Y3/J7nBrsXDMM32rN >> > H48An1dWzW/TKGzcrIZ7pPZjaehEO9mm >> > =iD/i >> > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> > -- >> > devel mailing list >> > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >> > > > -- > No amount of shouting at the round earth will make it flat. > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
