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[–] h_a_r_u_k_i 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] h_a_r_u_k_i 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes. I'm using Python Click FYI.

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] sisyphean 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This looks like a fantastic resource, thank you for sharing it! Saved.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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

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