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A command-line interface (CLI) is a mechanism for interacting with a computer operating system or software by typing commands to perform specific tasks.

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What are good habits for designing command line arguments?

While developing the application I started to wonder - How should I design command line arguments? A lot of programs are using formula like this -argument value or /argument value. Solution which came to my mind was argument:value. I thought it is…
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Is the development of CLI apps considered "backward"?

I am a DBA fledgling with a lot of experience in programming. I have developed several CLI, non interactive apps that solve some daily repetitive tasks or eliminate the human error from more complex albeit not so daily tasks. These tools are now…
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How does a CLI-oriented programmer's workflow differ from a GUI-oriented one?

I've heard a lot about the advantages of doing less programming work in GUI apps and using more command-line tools (especially with regard to getting things done more efficiently). However, since I don't understand how my workflow would be…
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Is it crazy to develop a TUI today?

I'm starting to develop a new program. It's basically a database interface, run a few queries, show the data in a nice way and be able to easy input new data (like this website). Thinking about which programs I use daily I realise that only my…
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Practical size limits of a Hashtable and Dictionary in C#

What are the practical limits for the number of items a C# 4 Dictionary or Hashtable can contain and the total number of bytes these structures can reasonable contain? I'll be working with large numbers of objects and want to know when these…
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How can a computer render a CLI/console along with a GUI?

I'm confused when looking into graphics - specifically with operating systems. I mean, how can a computer render a CLI/console along with a GUI? GUI's are completely different from text. And how can we have GUI windows that display text interfaces,…
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Multi-level validation in C#

I have a Console project reads inputs from CSV file and tries to save them to database. For that, I created a class Person that maps a CSV row. The CSV file has two columns Name and Age. Person class is like. class Person { public string Name; …
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Grouping non-boolean command-line options

This is just a quick question about standard CLI-parsing design. Say we have: foo -abc for most CLI-parsers, a single - dash (as opposed to a double dash --) means you can group single letter options together. Such that the above is synonymous…
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OOP CLI menu structure organization?

This problem has kept me from pursuing a project I'm working on because it influences the entire structure of the application. This question has been briefly touched on here, but I feel that it wasn't seen by many people and therefore wasn't very…
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SVN command line client: checkout refused when LDAP password changed “svn: OPTIONS of” (repo) “authorization failed” (but works in TortoiseSVN)

When using the command line/terminal svn client, a colleague is getting "svn: OPTIONS of " [repo] "...authorization failed" error message when they attempt to checkout the repo to be their local working copy. They used to be able to do this but have…
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Is there a canonical way to format 'usage' output for a cli script?

I have a python script that is supposed to be used as a small cli program. This is google's recommendations on how to document cli syntax. I was wondering, are there similar recommendations, or specifications, perhaps from GNU?
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Dynamic loading of objects defined during development for a running system

So I have a design/architectural question. I want to develop a pattern in a programming language that is able to allow a app command-line shell to send commands to a running application to create objects that a developer maybe working on while the…
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Parsing complex object-like parameters via CLI arguments

Say we have an API that accepts a list of objects. Something like: { "family": "Does", "contact_details": [ { "name": "John", "email": "john@example.com" }, { "name": "Jane", …
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Put functionality in same executable with command-line flag, or put it in a separate executable?

Background: I am working on a service where the domain logic exists as a library, and then the actual executable is built on a web framework as a wrapper around the domain logic library. There is no guarantee two customers run the same version of…
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Server-client CLI messaging design

I'm prototyping some single machine, single user software with a client-server model; the first client for which will be a CLI, but I expect a (local) webapp/GUI to come later. For the CLI, I'd like to be able to either connect to an existing server…
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