All one-byte program names in Nixpkgs

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{ "$": { "undollar": "Eat the dollar sign in the command you just pasted into your terminal" }, ",": { "comma": "Runs programs without installing them" }, "9": { "plan9port": "Plan 9 from User Space", "plan9port-wayland": "Plan 9 from User Space (fork with wayland support)" }, "B": { "deadpixi-sam-unstable": "Updated version of the sam text editor", "ma": "Minimalistic variant of the Acme editor" }, "R": { "R": "Free software environment for statistical computing and graphics", "rWrapper": "Free software environment for statistical computing and graphics" }, "X": { "xorg-server": "X server implementation by X.org", "xquartz": "" }, "[": { "busybox": "Tiny versions of common UNIX utilities in a single small executable", "coreutils": "GNU Core Utilities", "coreutils-full": "GNU Core Utilities", "darwin.shell_cmds": "Darwin shell commands and the Almquist shell", "gash-utils": "Core POSIX utilities written in Guile Scheme", "minimal-bootstrap.coreutils-musl": "The GNU Core Utilities", "minimal-bootstrap.coreutils-static": "The GNU Core Utilities", "toybox": "Lightweight implementation of some Unix command line utilities", "uutils-coreutils-noprefix": "Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils" }, "b": { "build2": "Build2 build system", "build2-bootstrap": "Bootstrap for the 'build2' package, you most likely want to use that one" }, "e": { "emacsclient-commands": "Collection of small shell utilities that connect to a local Emacs server" }, "g": { "g-ls": "Powerful ls alternative written in Go" }, "h": { "h": "Faster shell navigation of projects", "myrddin": "Systems language that is both powerful and fun to use" }, "k": { "kona": "Interpreter of K, APL-like programming language", "ngn-k": "Simple fast vector programming language" }, "m": { "m-cli": "Swiss Army Knife for macOS" }, "o": { "orbiton": "Config-free text editor and IDE limited to VT100" }, "q": { "q": "Tiny and feature-rich command line DNS client with support for UDP, TCP, DoT, DoH, DoQ, and ODoH", "q-text-as-data": "Run SQL directly on CSV or TSV files" }, "s": { "s-search": "Web search from the terminal" }, "t": { "t": "Command-line power tool for Twitter", "timetrap": "Simple command line time tracker written in ruby" }, "v": { "vlang": "Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software" }, "w": { "busybox": "Tiny versions of common UNIX utilities in a single small executable", "darwin.shell_cmds": "Darwin shell commands and the Almquist shell", "procps": "Utilities that give information about processes using the /proc filesystem", "toybox": "Lightweight implementation of some Unix command line utilities", "uutils-procps": "Rust reimplementation of the procps project" }, "y": { "yakut": "Simple CLI tool for diagnostics and debugging of Cyphal networks" }, "z": { "z-lua": "New cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits" } }