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| author | Silvio Rhatto <rhatto@riseup.net> | 2017-01-27 13:27:27 -0200 |
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| committer | Silvio Rhatto <rhatto@riseup.net> | 2017-01-27 13:27:27 -0200 |
| commit | 6f37a7e5238301f96a957cdf0af4f2d3fdd953d0 (patch) | |
| tree | 4c92510bed8cf11dd399d7eb308894c3fe8e4c29 /suckless/cli.mdwn | |
| parent | 38d57640ed3b03e0616cd095953418eb18acf95c (diff) | |
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Move stuff to suckless
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diff --git a/suckless/cli.mdwn b/suckless/cli.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8dd9c01 --- /dev/null +++ b/suckless/cli.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +[[!meta title="The New Command Line Manifesto"]] + +Idea: let all new commands to support also machine-readable +formats as inputs and outputs. + +This, along with UNIX pipes and daemon interfacing, brings CLI +to a new era of services that are: + +* Still based on small programs that do one thing but one thing right. +* But also are capable of interacting with each other in an uniform way. + +So let them support parameters like `--json` and `--yaml` for it's I/O. + +In other words, with parsers and serializers it's possible to keep an +ecosystem of UNIX microservices interacting with each other using a +consistent API. |