CLI Guidelines – A guide to help you write better command-line programs

Re:CLI Guidelines – A guide to help you write better command... by mulmen on Sunday December 06, 2020 @03:16PM (#25326284)

Really? So if I make a man page for my CLI tool you would assault me physically?

You should take your own description of your beliefs as a red flag to reassess them.

I use a few tools that don’t have man pages and I always find it jarring that I have to leave the CLI to get some basic usage info.

There is already tooling to generate manages and online/html docs from a single source. Reasonable thing seems to be “do both”. I’m not persuaded by “Windows is leaking.”

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Re:CLI Guidelines – A guide to help you write better command... by alkonaut on Sunday December 06, 2020 @03:53PM (#25326523)

> So if I make a man page for my CLI tool you would assault me physically?

What, and ... what?

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Re:CLI Guidelines – A guide to help you write better command... by TheFlyingFish on Sunday December 06, 2020 @09:58PM (#25328932)

I think the previous comment was taking issue with your use of the word "violently."

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Re:CLI Guidelines – A guide to help you write better command... by alkonaut on Monday December 07, 2020 @01:47AM (#25329923)

I understood that. I wonder if they googled the expression afterwards so I don’t need to explain it?

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