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This is incredible and makes me think a website like this could and should exist, containing an interface to as many unix tools as possible. Yes, one could "RT
by moreira 8y ago
This is incredible and makes me think a website like this could and should exist, containing an interface to as many unix tools as possible.
Yes, one could "RTFM" as one commenter mentioned, but if you're just a casual CLI user, this sort of interface seems incredibly handy. "I know I want to use cURL but I don't know what arguments I need to do X and Y". Use the interface to piece together a whole command, with nice instructions for every little flag and argument available so you know what you're doing.
It's kind of like those visual regex builders. They're amazing!
- raister 8y agoand then, the next software version will change that -x by -X and all go to the fan.......
- larkeith 8y agoFor new tools and commands, sure, but most notable Linux utilities are mature and stable, with very few syntactic changes - so many production scripts already rely on syntax remaining static that changing it would break far more than the suggested tool.
- stefan_ 8y agoYou would think that. Then, oops, we're running dash, not bash. Or that sinking feeling you get when you think "that command line switch worked last week" on some "mature and stable" Linux utility only to realize that you're no longer running bash with real utilities, but ash with toybox or busybox builtins because some dickhead wanted to save 5 MiB on his docker image.
- zorpner 8y agoA/UX had a tool like this called Commando (you can see it in the third screenshot on this page: http://toastytech.com/guis/aux3.html http://toastytech.com/guis/aux3.html ).