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[[!meta title="The New Command Line Manifesto"]]
Ideas:
* Let all new commands to support also machine-readable formats as inputs and
outputs.
* Encourage some good CLI practices like `--verbose` and `--dry-run/--simulate`.
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.
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