I've used at least a few GUIs that automatically generated a log of commands corresponding to your GUI actions, which you could observe, replay, or copy into a

I've used at least a few GUIs that automatically generated a log of commands corresponding to your GUI actions, which you could observe, replay, or copy into a script. The only one I can think of right now is the Active Directory Administrative Center [0], with its "history viewer" that shows the PowerShell command equivalent of everything you do. I think another one was SQL-related. Anyway, this is one way you can "reify" a GUI that happens to correspond to an equivalently powerful CLI. (Edit) Another example of reification is the Google Cloud Console, where you can go through a webpage for a complicated operation like creating a VM, but instead of pressing Save, you can click a link to see the equivalent gcloud CLI command and HTTP API request. I've used this a lot to script bulk operations after generating one outline for a request. [0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-ds/get-started/adac/advanced-ad-ds-management-using-active-directory-administrative-center--level-200-#BKMK_HistoryViewer https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-...