apt-get for Scripts, Not aptHere’s the part of the man page I missed:
The apt(8) commandline is designed as an end-user tool and it may change behavior between versions. While it tries not to break backward compatibility this is not guaranteed either if a change seems beneficial for interactive use.
So it might not be that people don’t now about the shorter version, if it is in regard to a script there’s actually a reason for it.
Keeping up with subtleties like this in a package manager is yet another
reason to centralize your mastery of a single, prominent package manager
system before branching out (and why learning pacman is such a fucking
horrible waste of time for most people wanting actual jobs using Linux).