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Holy cosmic coincidence, Batman. I posted an Ask HN about an hour after you first posted this seeking suggestions for discussions of information design for comm
by abathur 12y ago
Holy cosmic coincidence, Batman. I posted an Ask HN about an hour after you first posted this seeking suggestions for discussions of information design for command-line programs.
Even more funny, valaruca1 suggested that "The Art of Unix Programming" by Eric S Raymond might be a good place to start. I was a little disappointed when I checked it out; perhaps he just mis-remembered this keyword.
Thanks for posting this--it looks like where I need to start.
- abathur 12y agoAs a followup, after reading much of this and skimming the rest, the command-line side of things doesn't get much focus beyond the principles, after which the book turns to GUIs for unix. Neither TAOUP and TAOUU give much coverage to output for the human reader; most of the coverage of the topic is restricted to making the output useful for other cli programs.