On Wednesday 28 April 2010 23:07:39 Andras Korn wrote:
> Well, fwiw, grml already has such wrappers (this is one of the things that
> make it appealing). For example, ls is by default aliased to:
> 
> ls='ls -b -CF --color=auto'
> 
> I don't see how this is any different.

It is different as it only changes the default parameters for a program. 
In your case you putting the output from df trough column and sed.

And in addtion the sed command is only useful with the english locale and not 
any other like for example german http://nopaste.narf.at/show/24/

> But I'd be happy with DF() instead of df() if you really think modifying
> ls(1) is OK but modifying df(1) isn't. :)

Yes as the alias only adds additional parameters.

Ulrich