>
>> And we can also make the utilities behave "human friendly" when the output
>> is a terminal and not in ohtercases, although that has the problem of
>> making "ls -l" and "ls -l | less" behave completely differently.
>
>Another crazy idea would be to make utilities sensitive to a certain
>environment variable that defines the default "flavor". It doesn't work
>out of the box exactly, but it could be made almost OOB if the choice of
>flavor is offered when the user account is created - and for most
>newbies that would also be install time, since the new installer will
>create the default non-root account - and automatically add that
>environment variable to ~/.profile.
Nice idea, but it has one drawback: it still doesn't fix the scripting
issues.
One way to implement this, sidestepping scripting issues, is populating
accounts with default aliases:
ls -h
df -h [*]
in the appropriate shell startup files.
Casper
[*] df -h does not work for certain aguments (-h and -o are incompatible)
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