egg(1) is probably the best choice IMO. It doesn't conflict with any
other existing *nix command that I can tell, and I can't think of a
better command for dealing with Python eggs. It's immediately
evocative. Now that I think about it, maybe it was 'egg' that you
wanted to reserve. I like 'egg' too because Ruby gems are managed
with the gem(1) command so there's a parallel that is easily remembered.
I agree. I really like egg! easy_install is a bit of a pain as tab completion with underscores is troublesome. 3 characters is even better..