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Do you have an example of a CLT that has a dry run flag? I am very confused on how to design one for some CLTs I'm making. If you call an API to retrieve data,
by azemetre 3y ago
Do you have an example of a CLT that has a dry run flag? I am very confused on how to design one for some CLTs I'm making.
If you call an API to retrieve data, how can that be a dry run? Are you suppose to give fake examples with fake output?
- scbrg 3y agoapt-get. It simply tells you what it's going to remove/install. Calling an API to retrieve data is not really the type of program that requires a dry-run flag. It's mainly useful for commands that change the state of something in ways that could potentially be destructive, unwanted and/or hard to revert.
- amake 3y agoThe AWS CLI has --[no]-dry-run in many of its subcommands. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-usage-help.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-usage-h...
- funcDropShadow 3y agomake has -n or --dry-run. But originally it was called -n and that has been used many cli tools.