This utility provides an enhanced method for providing functionality to your shell without relying on a particular BASH environment setup. Unlike aliases and exported BASH functions, which require specification in a shell startup/initialization script, it provides executables in the specified PATH. Defining functionality for Symtil allows you to make a process simpler to execute without the limitations of aliases or functions exported to BASH.

NOTE: More information about the benefits of BASH aliases, functions, and scripts can be read on the When to Use an Alias vs Script vs a New Function in Bash article.

Conceptually working similar to the popular BusyBox (file and shell utill Swiss Army Knife), when adding functionality to Symtil a symbolic link is created in the directory next to Symtil and points to it. The added functionality and created symbolic link is named the same