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> But Bash is spectacularly unintuitive. How do I rename files? `mv`? List files is `ls`

mv and ls are not shell commands, they are programs. They existed long before bash and were developed at a time of 110 baud teletype connections when short, highly abbreviated command names were worth the inconvenience.

If you don't like them you're free to alias "rename" to "mv" and "list" to "ls"



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