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by grouchyOldGuy 6366 days ago
If that really bothers you, just alias those commands.

alias listopenfiles=ls

alias netfind=ngrep

...and so forth. I've done that to add the DOS "cls" command to clear my terminal screen. Also, I'm a Cisco admin, so I have aliased "en" to "su", and the reverse on Cisco switches and routers. Yes, Cisco also has the alias command in IOS.
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davidw 6366 days ago
If unix were being designed from the ground up, today, user friendly commands, with aliases to power user abbreviations might make sense. It was, however, created some 30+ years ago.
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11ren 6365 days ago
yeah, if you don't like it, change it (you could even put them on a USB stick or a server somewhere so you could install them on a new machine quickly). That one could change it honestly didn't occur to me til you said it.

There's the favourite DOS->unix:

  alias cd..="cd .."
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