It'd be nice to have any easy way to make the command line more friendly to interactive users, rather than Posix compliant. The only way I can think to do it is to comment the bash initialization files. Add the following comments to /etc/skel/.bashrc and /root/.bashrc # Uncomment the following for a more forgiving # interactive command line environment. #alias rm='rm -i' #alias cp='cp -i --strip-trailing-slashes' #alias mv='mv -i --strip-trailing-slashes' And the following to /root/.bash_profile and /etc/skel/.bash_profile # Uncomment the following for a more forgiving # interactive command line environment. #export LESS='-i' #export EDITOR='pico' ;# default is vi, or choose mcedit, emacs, or others #export VISUAL='pico' Clutter, yes. But at least somebody who's looking will have a guide to the possiblities. Many who know enough to find and read the files won't know all they might do.
The config files live in the setup package, reassigning. While at it, a commented alias grep="grep --color=auto" wouldn't hurt, I think quite a few people will want that.
While you're at it, put # Modem users will want to uncomment this. #options timeout:30 in /etc/resolv.conf
At this point, I don't think we're adding new aliases.