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Ask HN: Command line flags?
1 point by kashav on March 25, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
Was watching [this curl talk][talk] from Daniel Stenberg and he included a graph of the number of command line options that curl has accepted over the years (around the 6 minute mark).

Got curious if there's any prior art/research/projects/attempts/thoughts on shipping command line software that rids the use of command line flags. Other than config files, I can't imagine what they'd be replaced with.

[talk]: https://vimeo.com/692145160



Environment variables are also commonly used by cli programs.




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