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Nikita

I have an idea for a command-line tool, which is supposed to be run very often. As such, I want to name (or at least alias) it to a single letter. I want to pick a (starting) letter that does not conflict with existing aliases, though.

Which aliases are *not taken* on your system?

1. Go to your terminal
2. For each poll option, run `which`
3. Select the poll options for which the output is `not found`

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Anonymous poll

Poll

d
5
83.3%
j
5
83.3%
o
5
83.3%
x
6
100%
6 people voted.
Voting ended 11 August at 12:25.
8 August at 12:25 | Open on fosstodon.org
5 comments
Nikita

Here's an example run. My reply to the poll would thus be "j", "o", and "x"

Screenshot of a command line running 'which' for each of: 'd', 'j', 'o', 'x'. The output is: "d aliased to dirs, j not found, o not found, x not found"
8 August at 12:30 | Open on fosstodon.org
pino

@kytta Sounds like some hybris is going on? Is it the next 'we pipe your text to chatgpt' app? Or does it upload stuff to youtube? SCNR But, seriously, are you sure that you really need such a short command name? Even ls is two letters. What other one-letter commands exist? Maybe users can just create their own alias if needed?

8 August at 12:41 | Open on social.cologne
Nikita

@pino first off, the whole app will be AI-free and offline, so no worries 😂 And I am not really planning on calling the whole app a single letter. The name will be longer, but I need to decide on the starting character. So, if, say, "x" wins, I could call my app "xylophone" and offer the people the alias it to "x"

8 August at 13:46 | Open on fosstodon.org
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@kytta We already have jj: github.com/martinvonz/jj

And I sometimes alias j for 'just`: github.com/casey/just

So preferably not j :)

8 August at 14:55 | Open on lor.sh
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