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Significantly harder problem, but what would be of most interest for me is for a program to offer this interface to an unannotated program (which will always be

Significantly harder problem, but what would be of most interest for me is for a program to offer this interface to an unannotated program (which will always be the majority). `trogon ffmpeg` or what have you. Theoretically, command line help is structured in a way it should be possible to parse, but I have no doubt there are many many non-compliant implementations that exist. I suppose you could lean on man files when they exist.

willm 3y ago
That is a tricky problem indeed. I’m thinking a lot could be extracted from help and man pages. But maybe for some apps we could just write it by hand, or partially by hand. These schemas could be in a repo and downloaded on demand.
- em-bee 3y ago
  there is a large collection of annotations for autosuggestion of commandline arguments for fish and other shells that should be usable too.
- pmarreck 3y ago
  I hate to be the broken record here but I bet chatgpt could read the man pages for any commandline app and develop a schema in the given format for it. In fact I’d love to try to do that