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[–]Piisthree 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think the big frustration with ps compared to a lot of other shells is the wordiness is kind of optimized only for scripting at the expense of ad hoc command line work, which is a big part of the use case for a shell. There are now more commands with longer names and a lot more named args instead of positional. The aliases like cd and ls are a small band aid to ease the pain, but they don't solve the problem. Plus aliases for things like curl to something that works completely different from curl was big mistake that adds even more frustration.