From: Tony Williams 

You could take a look at zsh. It has an amazing smart completion system
which can fill in switches for you and even tell you what they mean :
http://www.linux-mag.com/2002-07/power_01.html has some good information on
the subject.

--
Tony

Robert Comer wrote:
> I was thinking of alias as well, but I'd actually want to make some of the
> switches make sense too.
>
> Though I do wonder why anyone hasn't come up with a prebuilt alias list for
> things like this...
>
> - Bob Comer
>
>
> "Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
> news:3de634d7$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>Look up 'alias' for the (t)csh, and presumably for bash too.
>>
>>Paul
>>
>>"Antti Kurenniemi" 
wrote in message
>>news:3de621ee$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>
>>>I wouldn't even care about the DOS compatibility (although that would be
>>>easy for *me* to use), but I'd very much like full words as commands. It
>>>takes me roughly 0.02 seconds to type the extra 2 or three letters - but
>>
>>it
>>
>>>takes me two hours to find someone who remembers wether it was
"xvzf" or
>>>"zxvf" or...
>>>
>>>I'd really, really like to be able to "list" instead
of "ls". Maybe it's
>>>just me, but meaningful words are easier to remember.
>>>
>>>
>>>Antti Kurenniemi
>>>
>>>"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
>>>news:3de61c08$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>
>>>>I don't see why someone couldn't write a shell that has DOS
compatible
>>>>naming of the commands...
>>>>
>>>>- Bob Comer
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>

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