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Re:The Unix Game by lukifer on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:10PM (#21250439)
I'd be interested in a non-gamified CLI-builder GUI in this style; it'd be especially cool to surface flags from man pages. Many CLIs follow conventions or are easy to remember for basic use cases, but as soon as one is juggling a dozen flags and multiple pipes (ffmpeg comes to mind), it can be a tedious workflow to do it all from a terminal.
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Re:The Unix Game by seldomI on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @12:15PM (#21272043)
There's a block based editor for CLI programs in development: https://app.code-it-studio.de/project/303

We made it for educational purposes though, you can only run the programs inside the browser (yet).

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Re:The Unix Game by shhsshs on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @01:52AM (#21255869)
I usually resort to making a bash script with a bunch of intermediate files at each step so I can see what’s happening.

Here’s a tool I’ve seen around but never had a big need for: https://github.com/akavel/up

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