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Are you familiar with the humorous device known as the pun?

a) How about "brochure"? b) Someone that runs for the hills when seeing a command called "bro", will also run from "man" even before they now about eithers meaning. Of course, these poeple don't exist, because anyone using this is a grown up man or woman.

It's meant to be ironic.

I don't like it to be honest. It seems a bit kiddish really. Great idea though, but I would have preferred something else. Maybe `eg`?

eg ls, eg cat, eg less etc.

This is actually a very, very good idea. Everybody knows it, it means one thing and one thing only, and that thing also describes what it does, it probably isn't taken, and fits nicely with all other standard descriptive commands like ls/man/... Nice one.

it means one thing and one thing only, and that thing also describes what it does, it probably isn't taken

http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=wheezy&arch=any&mode...

Name collisions aren't the worst things in the world, you can usually alias around them. ack vs ack-grep springs to mind

or 'pal' as in exampal (sic)

The fact that man is short for manual is irrelevant, although I also dislike the term "bro".