Re: Odd reproducible problem - but is it a bug?

From	Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Odd reproducible problem - but is it a bug?
Date	2022-05-04 16:00 +0200
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Anders Andersson (12022-05-04):
> On this note, I've always found it annoying that debian (and likely
> others) don't put /sbin in the normal user's $PATH. A lot of the tools
> there have uses other than modifying the system.

I have to unpack Zip files rather often, I use unzip in command-line. It
has become an automatism: “unz<tab><space>/tmp/...<tab>”.

Recently, initrd-tools complained that zstd was not installed, so I
installed it.

The next time I had a Zip file to unpack, I typed “unz<tab>” and was
confused that it did not work: “unz<tab>” had become ambiguous between
“unzip(sfx)” and “unzstd”.

Every program in the search path clutters the namespace and makes the
shell completion less efficient. When a program is useful for a normal
user once every 36th of the month, I would rather not have it in the
default search path: typing “/sb<tab>” then is cheap enough for the
benefit of gaining a few keystrokes for commands I use many times a day.

YMMV.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George

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  Re: Odd reproducible problem - but is it a bug? Lucio Crusca <lucio@sulweb.org> - 2022-05-02 17:50 +0200
  Re: Odd reproducible problem - but is it a bug? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-05-02 17:50 +0200
    Re: Odd reproducible problem - but is it a bug? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-05-02 18:00 +0200
  Re: Odd reproducible problem - but is it a bug? Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2022-05-02 20:00 +0200
    Re: Odd reproducible problem - but is it a bug? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-05-02 20:20 +0200
      Re: Odd reproducible problem - but is it a bug? Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> - 2022-05-04 05:30 +0200
        Re: Odd reproducible problem - but is it a bug? tomas@tuxteam.de - 2022-05-04 07:40 +0200
        Re: Odd reproducible problem - but is it a bug? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-05-04 15:10 +0200
          Re: Odd reproducible problem - but is it a bug? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-05-04 15:40 +0200
        Re: Odd reproducible problem - but is it a bug? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2022-05-04 16:00 +0200

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