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Yeah, I think it at least means abandoning any idea of changing the API of any of the standard tools. Whether you silently replace them in a custom shell or provide alternative named replacement.

I'm halfway tempted to replace my shell with one that is more integrated with my terminal and do something like the last bit you suggested, given it can be very trivial[1] if you explicitly make the choice that for any scripting you'll use a "regular" shell.

[1] there is, in fact, a tiny single-file Ruby shell that I might be tempted to extend.



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