My syntax in the subject heading was incorrect. I thought I could use man page syntax, but the square brackets indicate an optional string. If I were to use regular expressions, the low-level commands and recommended commands would look like this: {"user"}{"add"|"del"} and {"add"|"del"}{"user"} which I would shorten to user{add|del} and {add|del}user. Does anyone know of a better syntax? On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 at 08:31 El Fontanero <el.fontanero@gmail.com> wrote:
On 30/03/16 02:19 PM, Ivan Avery Frey wrote:
In Debian useradd and userdel are low level utilities and their man pages recommend that administrators use adduser and deluser.
I've found a way to differentiate between the low level utilities and the recommended ones.
The low level utilities use "Latin" order where the verb component comes after the object and the recommended commands the other way around.
So the recommended commands' syllables' order matches that of our everyday language while the low level utilities' syllables' order matches that of a "dead" language.
Quod erat demonstrandum, eh Ivan?
Beats going to the man pages every time I need one of them ;-)
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