I often need to use `ping -c 1 gnu.org'
Not to be obvious, but my suggestion is, use an alias. That's what
aliases are for.
I never liked aliases, I prefer making programs have good behaviour
instead, that helps everyone.
BSD type behaviour should be default, since that seems what
most people prefer here.
Exactly my point. You were/are proposing to introduce a major new
environment variable (already undesirable without very good reason)
in a sense which is backwards to its existing sibling
(POSIXLY_CORRECT).
Then I must have miscommunicated badly, my intention was the exact
opposite. The variable name as such (BSD_ME_HARDER) was just a
suggestion, it should probobly be called BSDLY_INCORRECTLY or
GNULY_CORRECTLY or something equally silly.
