Re: an easier bash

[jfm2@club-internet.fr]

> 
> >I would also add
> >alias dir="dir --color"
> >to /etc/bashrc
> >for thoes people who are used to the DOS CLI and dir command.
> 
>    There has been a lot of talk about making Linux easier, and I am all
> for that.  However, we need to be clear when something is a hack, and
> when it is standard.  I think we are doing new users a disservice when
> we allow them to type the wrong thing, and still get the correct
> result...  When happens when a new Inde user goes to his friends Deban
> box and types "dir" because that is all he knows.  We should set up the
> ms-user-friendly aliases to actually type out the real command.  That
> way, the user learns what the command really is, and can use it when he
> telnets to his ISP shell, and so on...
>    That said, I have no idea how to do it in Linux, just in the
> BayNetworks CLI... :-)  Something like alias command=echo "real
> command":real command, but for Linux.  Just my 2 cents...  Or is it a
> buck and a quarter now?
> 

The command "dir" is standard in Linux because it is part of GNU's
fileutils.  In fact it is an "ls" who reacts differntly when invoked
as "dir"

-- 
			Jean Francois Martinez

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