>>> On 11/5/2013 at 09:33 PM, Gerhard Postpischil <[email protected]> wrote: 
> And I find "cp" terribly confusing - to a neophyte does it stand for 
> copy, or compare, or compress (as in disk reorganization). It might make 
> more sense if I could assign an alias of COPY to it.

Try "alias copy=cp"
or
"alias compare=diff"
or
"alias compress=gzip"

It's just like anything else.  It's really not that hard, if you spend any 
amount of time working with the commands.  If you don't, they fade pretty 
quickly.


Mark Post

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