[tokenizerrr]

What about service apache2 restart

[yellowapple]

Or /etc/rc.d/apache2 restart, as one would find in the BSD world (and Slackware, with a bit of modification).

This isn't to mention that it should be relatively trivial to map "restart-service $foo" to "/etc/rc.d/$foo restart" or "systemctl $foo.service restart" or whatever if one so chooses.

[bbatha]

FreeBSD uses the service command these days too.

[yellowapple]

Good to know. In that case, "BSD Land minus FreeBSD and possibly its descendants".

[nailer]

Sure you could write functions or aliases to everything to give them more predictable names. But you shouldn't have to.