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That seems backwards to me, short commands should be where users place their daily workflow of aliases. Longer names should be where the kind of static, shell scripting "API" sits. Imagine a world where we could set 'mv' and 'ls' to something other than the `mv` and `ls` binaries without breaking our systems...


That's the NixOS world.




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