It has long been a pet peeve of mine that the *nix world has no standard reliable convention for how to interrogate a program for it's available flags. Instead there are at least a dozen ways it can be done and you can't rely on any one of them.

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lelanthran 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's not specific to unix though.

	▲	mikkupikku 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I didn't say it was, but I simply don't care what problems any other kind of system has because they aren't my problems. Last time I had windows on any of my computers it was windows 98.

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speed_spread an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I've been thinking about using an OpenAPI schema to describe cli tools. It would probably need extensions to describe stdin/stout and other things that don't happen in REST.

	▲	tomeraberbach an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Have you seen Stainless's CLI generator? https://www.stainless.com/blog/stainless-cli-generator-your-...