On 2013-11-06 15:06, DASDBILL2 wrote:
My first thought when I see "cp" is "central processor."
How about using "NIO" as an alias of "cp" (meaning "copy"), where "NIO" stands for "Not Intuitively
Obvious"? "cpy" is much more intuitively obvious to me than "cp".
Our MVS world is not without similar egregious examples. E.g, some of the
operator/user commands for Omegamon were very cryptic.
Omegamon did have some, uh, strange commands.
cp is not among the more obscure names chosen for Unix/Linux commands.
At least the letters of the command can be found in the word "copy".
It certainly isn't intuitive that if I want to search the files in a
directory for occurrences of a string that the command I would want is
grep. Or how about flex/bison? And please don't ask me to finger a user.
Thank goodness IBM did not choose to prefix all their commands with "ya"
for "yet another".
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Regards, Gord Tomlin
Action Software International
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