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See also "dog" which I've been using for a while, works well. https://github.com/ogham/dog

I actually already have a "q" alias, I think single-letter aliases are probably quite common. Are there many other well-known utilities with a single-letter name?

Edit: Turns out I have one installed, "z", a universal archiver front-end. https://legacy.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/z/



I use a “z” as well, but it’s a global cd tool. https://github.com/rupa/z/


I use Zoxide[0], which incidentally also uses "z" as its main command, and it's also a "cd" tool.

[0]: https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide


> Are there many other well-known utilities with a single-letter name?

There is a `w` command. It's kind of like a mix of `who` and `uptime`.

https://linux.die.net/man/1/w


Huh! Today I learned that w and who aren't the same. I always thought they were.


The `w` command is more of a `what` instead of `who`.


It would seem that the project is stalled, if not dead.

I discovered the project with this thread and I was about to file a bug report when I saw some comments about the maintainer who went silent a year ago or so.


I use doggo, a better version written in Go: https://github.com/mr-karan/doggo


Grr.. the latest dog binary release gives me "GLIBC_2.32 not found" errors on x64 Linux..


A version might be on your repo - it's in the Homebrew repo on Macs.


also “y”, careful where you try it


It definitely makes sense for me to reserve 1-letter commands for the user.


I have n, a node version manager.


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