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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