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Of all the challenges with using CLIs, the one that bites me consistently is capitalization of flags. Really wish we'd standardized on being capital-agnostic (o
by shadowgovt 3y ago
Of all the challenges with using CLIs, the one that bites me consistently is capitalization of flags. Really wish we'd standardized on being capital-agnostic (or even demanding lowercase only).
... but we didn't, so now you have to memorize whether recursion is capital or lowercase R, restart is capital or lowercase R, poweroff is capital or lowercase P, etc.
- thworp 3y agoMost utilities I use daily have --long-flags for all of these. Using completion (prferrably https://github.com/unixorn/fzf-zsh-plugin https://github.com/unixorn/fzf-zsh-plugin) you can complete them pretty quickly and without knowing the precise name.