Zenaan Harkness <zen...@freedbms.net> writes: > Another one is "import" - should simply NEVER be a program name - > should be reserved.
> man page: import - saves any visible window on an X server and > outputs it as an image file. You can capture a single window, the > entire screen, or any rectangular portion of the screen > git does it sensibly (in the last few years) with a primary basename > and sub commands. import is part of ImageMagick, which is a rather old program and which grabbed a bunch of very generic binary names. (import, resize, compare, convert, display, and stream, for example.) GraphicsMagick is a newer fork of ImageMagick, and it correctly does the main command and subcommand thing with gm, but neither fork is clearly better than the other, so people haven't done a wholesale switch. ImageMagick is very, very widely used, so reworking it to use a saner command model is pretty hard. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
