&gt; Everything would be so much easier to learn if mv was generally aliased to move and all code examples used the long version.<p>I dunno; Tim Berners-Lee has said that his single biggest mistake was including two slashes in URLs (as in <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com</a>, as opposed to http:&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com).  (I can&#x27;t find any better citation for this than <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.plughitzlive.com&#x2F;theupstream&#x2F;298-creator-of-the-world-wide-web-apologizes-for-extra-slash.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.plughitzlive.com&#x2F;theupstream&#x2F;298-creator-of-the-w...</a>, unfortunately.)  I think that one shouldn&#x27;t underestimate the apparently negligible impact of an extra character or two, if there will be millions of people typing those extra characters potentially many times a day, over the course of decades or centuries.<p>(Actually, now that I read your post more carefully, you say that `mv` should be <i>aliased</i> to `move`, meaning, I assume, that `mv` would also be available.  I am still unsure about that, because most people would never bother to learn the short version—witness how many people don&#x27;t know keyboard shortcuts for their most commonly used programmes—but I guess the experts would, and that, perhaps, is enough.)