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I wrote a personal tool to do this automatically by parsing '--help' after I couldn't remember the tar options for the millionth time. Turns out the programs t
by AlotOfReading 2y ago
I wrote a personal tool to do this automatically by parsing '--help' after I couldn't remember the tar options for the millionth time. Turns out the programs that have complicated, undiscoverable interfaces also tend to omit useful options from automatically discoverable documentation, so it wasn't especially reliable.
- BoingBoomTschak 2y agoReminds me of a similar wish for argv introspection I had at some point (e.g. https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/7688 https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/7688) that went nowhere. I hardcoded curl this way.