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Fair point. I've been doing this for years and none of my scripts have ever caused any (noticeable) breakage, though. The danger is also mitigated because I on
by bqmjjx0kac 2y ago
Fair point. I've been doing this for years and none of my scripts have ever caused any (noticeable) breakage, though.
The danger is also mitigated because I only modify my own user's shell rc file. Any daemons running as root or their own user are unaffected.
- mekoka 2y agoArticle is from 2009. Plenty of prevalent short named tools have been released since then, causing exactly this sort of issues. Just thinking about it, "node" and "npm" come to mind.
- michaelcampbell 2y ago> causing exactly this sort of issues POTENTIALLY. This (for me, anyway), is a solution in search of a problem. Been using some sort of *nix since the early 90's, writing scripts and commands and aliases and functions the whole time - this has never once happened to me. It obviously _can_, and PROBABLY has, to some. But it's more a "can" than "will". Maybe I just name my homebrew stuff in a way that's unlikely to collide, dunno.