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The most comprehensive CLI guidelines in the past have been in this book by Eric Raymond: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104745.The_Art_of_UNIX_Programmin
by eterps 3y ago
The most comprehensive CLI guidelines in the past have been in this book by Eric Raymond:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104745.The_Art_of_UNIX_Programming https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104745.The_Art_of_UNIX_P...
https://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/ https://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/
It has been a while since I read that book, but after skimming through clig.dev I gather opinions have changed over time quite a bit.
- hiAndrewQuinn 3y agoI thought much the same thing when I read CLIG. I'm a big fan of the 17 Unix rules he puts down, though, and I think a lot of really good equilibria exist on the spectrum between the two.