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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Minor quibbles
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Aaron Bentley |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Minor quibbles |
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Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:41:01 -0500 |
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Pierce T.Wetter III wrote:
I don't particularly seen the need for verbose forms, especially since
changing that would mean changing the behavior of move.
Nope, move is a synonym for "mv-id" like it is now.
Robert Collins doesn't like the fact that move does move-id, and if one
of the main Arch developers sometimes gets tripped up by that, then it's
probably a Bad Idea. I'd go so far as to call it user-hostile. I'm all
for removing "move" entirely.
rename is a synonym for move (never have liked that unixism)
Oh, and I suppose this makes perfect sense:
$ alias rename="mv"
$ mkdir foo
$ touch bar
$ rename bar foo
$ ls -l foo
-rw-r--r-- 1 abentley abentley 0 Mar 17 11:30 bar
I thought you wanted to make things simpler?! Your list contains 12
ways to express 4 operations, and it leaves out move-id and delete-id
(which I'd be opposed to removing, deleting, trashing or expunging,
since they're the canonical forms).
Aaron
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Aaron Bentley
Director of Technology
Panometrics, Inc.
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Minor quibbles, Miles Bader, 2004/03/17