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interesting, what do you mean by composable?
by simianwords 8mo ago
interesting, what do you mean by composable?
- hbogert 8mo agoAlbeit it's the shell, I assume he means piping
- simianwords 8mo agoThat has less to do with terminal than unix commands no?
- craftkiller 8mo agoPiping is implemented in the shell (bash, zsh, etc...), not the unix commands themselves nor the terminal emulator. Whether the above discussion was using the word "terminal" to refer to the terminal emulator, the shell, or the whole combined experience is anyone's guess.
- skydhash 8mo agoPiping is a feature of the shell, not the terminal. But composable means that cli tools produces text, consume text, and are configured through text. You can build independent tools to do separate task and then build a meta tools that coordinate them. While the individual tools may be complex, the coordination can be very easy. With posix shells, you have piping and subshells that do a lot of the heavy lifting.