An open-source guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day.
  • harukiEnglish
    5•2 years ago

    I’ve been using this guide for writing a CLI tool for my company. Kudos to the authors for the amazing insights.

    • @nivenkosEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      FWIW a good library will do a lot of this for you - e.g. clap for Rust.

      • harukiEnglish
        3•2 years ago

        Yes. I’m using Python Click FYI.

        I mean I’ve been writing a CLI tool, not a CLI engine.

  • @fuboEnglish
    4•2 years ago

    If it supports -? or --help, we can figure out the rest from the copious & accessible documentation that it will give us then.

      • @fuboEnglish
        3•2 years ago

        In other optimism, if I can apt-get install it, it has a manpage written by someone who’s at least as entertaining a writer as Larry Wall.

        • lorchEnglish
          2•2 years ago

          Ok now this is venturing past Optimism into Fantasy… Is there a command line genre of fantasy?

  • @cosmicroseEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    This is awesome, I was looking for something like this very recently!