On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 05:23:21PM -0800, Dan Robinson wrote: > > > > Sure. You can define an alias display=less. Or you can simply > > alias d=less. > > I did the latter, but I was talking about "simply" changing > filenames, often to something more discriptive, and making aliases > when necessary. Maybe use something like mv /*/*less* /*/*display*, > with y/n prompts? I'm remembering Stan told me Linux is the most > configurable thing around, but he didn't say how difficult. > I would use 'cp -i' instead of 'mv'. You pretty much do NOT want to erase anything. Especially on "evolved" sustems like Debian, where package managers will get nasty when files can't be found. No doubt there are other scripts and programs that will go belly-up if it tries to use a file that doesn't exist.
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