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I just realized what'd make a great feature, in my opinion: Add a "recommend alternate" option. For instance, if I see a command I know is suboptimal or there exist other tools that do the job better, I can submit an alternate way to perform the same action.

For instance, I see something like:

  find $PWD -type f -exec grep pattern {} \;
I can suggest an alternate to be:

  grep -r . pattern


This is the killer app for this sort of thing, cf. "useless use of cat", pgrep, etc.

You might want to have some sort of field for platform, since these things are going to vary from GNU/Solaris/*BSD.




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