Re: I would like to see "cmd" alias for "bash" binary in every distribution

[Emil Natan]

I do not remember when was the last time I used cmd (and Windows), but I
think the counterpart of cmd on Linux is the terminal or the terminal
emulator like xterm, aterm etc. Then on Linux you have much bigger variety
of terminal emulators with different people preferring one or another
emulator, so it does less sense to make that choice for them. If you are
used to the cmd command and want that available on Linux, you can set an
alias called cmd to your terminal emulator of choice like this `alias
cmd='xterm'`. You can put that in your .bashrc file and make it available
every time you log in.

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:55 AM Vaidas BoQsc <address@hidden>
wrote:

> Now I do not like Windows and Microsoft at all, but I do like
> standartisation.
> On Windows there is shorthand for Command Prompt - cmd.exe
> I would like to ask to "cmd" add alias that would point to bash by default.
> I have few uses for it and not a single case is about using it in the
> script itself, but in the interactive mode of bash. Mainly to reduce the
> mental load of remembering if you have to type in "bash" or "cmd" when
> switching between Windows workstation and Linux distribution. Sure command
> prompt of Windows is little bit different in options and switches than
> bash, but the basics are the same and enough for interactive mode I do
> think.
>