Spectre.Console lets you make beautiful console apps with .NET Core

Re:Spectre.Console lets you make beautiful console apps with... by timvisee on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @07:52AM (#25197979)

Though TUIs have its place, this totally destroys the ability for text processing used a lot on Unix platforms where a more simple output would suffice. For some applications like this it might be better to go for a non-terminal GUI anyway.

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Re:Spectre.Console lets you make beautiful console apps with... by fratajcz on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @08:34AM (#25198264)

You can check if stdout is a tty: if it's not, you output raw text. GNU ls does this: by default it outputs in a multiple column layout, but when piped, it outputs one file per line.

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Re:Spectre.Console lets you make beautiful console apps with... by piaste on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @08:13AM (#25198115)

Terminal (human) UI and scripting (machine) UI should be separate if the latter is a concern at all.

Think Debian's apt which is intended for human use, while apt-get is for scripts and sticks to a predictable console output.

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Re:Spectre.Console lets you make beautiful console apps with... by sokoloff on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @08:18AM (#25198156)

TIL the difference between apt and apt-get; Thanks! (I was often a little bit curious, but never quite curious enough to go chase it down.)

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Re:Spectre.Console lets you make beautiful console apps with... by flohofwoe on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @09:28AM (#25198693)

I think this should be selected with a command-line arg, show "human-friendly" output by default, and "pipe-friendly" output with a special argument.

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Re:Spectre.Console lets you make beautiful console apps with... by nudpiedo on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @08:56AM (#25198413)

fun to mention that in the days that many commands provide a --json flag to stream output directly to a programming API.

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