On my school's SunOS there are a lot of tools that
sound the same but aren't exactly the same as the GNU
tools that I'm accustomed with from Debian. This is
confusing and error-prone.
For example
du
isn't GNU du(1) but a binary on the SunOS system:
/usr/bin/du
and there is also
/usr/ucb/du
However, GNU du *is* installed, in
/it/sw/gnutools/bin/du
And this is the same for so many tools: ls, grep, ...
So the question is: how can I make the GNU toolchain
the favored alternative when there are several
executables? Without setting aliases one by one... (I
use zsh.)
Also, I don't want to remove /usr/bin from PATH as
there are stuff there that isn't in the GNU path, e.g.
troff. I don't say I prefer troff to groff, but why
not keep everything?
The SunOS is:
SunOS ... 5.10 Generic_150400-19 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240
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