Evolution

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Tuesday 07 December 2004 3:32 pm, David Hummel wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:25:57PM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > On Tuesday 07 December 2004 3:13 pm, David Hummel wrote:
> > > It's generally a bad idea to give a script the same name as a system
> > > command (unless it's some kind of wrapper for that command, and even
> > > then be careful).  Just add .sh, .bash, .pl, whatever.
> >
> > I actually discuss this in the Linux course I teach.  If you noted,
> > the name of the script is Kill. Yes, kill.sh would work very nicely
> > too, but Kill is more into the Unix paradigm where every command
> > should be a few letters to type as possible. (Comes from my ASR33
> > days).
>
> I think this is pretty much a non-issue with command completion in
> modern shells like bash.
This is very true. Actually pkill et. al. does essentially the same thing 
and a bunch more. 
One issue is just keeping one's environment straight between systems,. 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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