[SuperNinKenDo]

The problem is that *nix has system utilities who's binaries are named in such a way to make it difficult to replace the nice shorthands that are useful during interactive use, because they may cause problems during script execution.

If we could go back to the drawing board I'd say every system utlity should have a verbose name with some kind of aliasing system that provides easy shorthands to them. Then the shorthands could be replaced easily, with the verbose names being used during scripting.

This might seem like a moot point, since we can't go back to the drawing board, but many projects continue to make this problem worse by insisting on naming their binaries like we're still living with the constraints of the 80s. I guess because it gives them the flavour of "real" system utilities. It would be nice if projects stopped doing that, but oh well.