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Article #141Choice of command names
From: castor fu
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1989 16:13
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1989 16:13
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One thing which I was wondering about is whether it's a good idea to reserve the keywords 'help' and 'type' for bash. It seems like the novice user might be surprised if they got a lot of stuff about the shell when they type 'help' and that this keyword should be reserved for a more generic help command. Maybe bashhelp ? Similarly 'type' will no doubt confuse people coming from a VMS or MS-DOS environment. 'typeof' is my suggestion for a replacement for type. Can anyone else think of things that should be modified before the interface is 'frozen'? -Castor Fu foo@portia.stanford.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!shelby!portia!foo From: foo@portia.Stanford.EDU (castor fu) Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Choice of command names Keywords: bash help type Message-ID: <3173@portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 26 Jun 89 16:13:58 GMT Sender: castor fu <foo@Portia.stanford.edu> Organization: Stanford University Lines: 14