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Would you mind listing more common mistakes made by CLI developers?

• telgareith 2y ago
  These days: not building this such that they can be easily spit out as json and/or xml markup.
• two_handfuls 2y ago
  Not obeying the --help flag.
• fragmede 2y ago
  not behaving the same as robust cli tools. -h and --help and -v and --verbose and --version
• ksenzee 2y ago
  Julia Evans had an interesting thread recently on “social rules” of the terminal: https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/113540676612640547 https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/113540676612640547
• sphars 2y ago
  This is a good, open-source resource for guidelines on creating CLIs, which goes over some common mistakes. https://clig.dev/ https://clig.dev/