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mlawren
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Comment #15891779
Somewhat off-topic, but I had a need recently for a simple serialization format that satisfied the following: * Support for undef/null * Support for binary data * Support for UTF8 …
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Comment #13783311
Actually someone did, in 1998 no less: https://metacpan.org/pod/DBI::Shell
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Comment #10070040
Inspiring web page, but where does a user start? I can download, install, run, and then? You are missing some instructions about an interface. Edit: Ok I looked harder. The RUNNING…
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Comment #9463816
A more generic tool for this type of function is direnv[ http://direnv.net/ ]. I use direnv for example for setting per-directory Perl installation variables to keep my development…
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Comment #7958758
I should probably also mention that bif, while functional is still alpha quality software. And so far tests only pass on Linux and the *BSDs. Testers/bug-hunters for MacOS would be…
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Comment #7958751
I've been working on bif ( http://bifax.org/bif/ ) for the past 3 years. Bif is a project management tool with a command-line interface. It helps you track tasks, issues and bugs u…
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Comment #5902257
In fact, while I'm here, any other comments you have on the interface are also very welcome. Possible topics: Order of commands as printed here, or the names of the commands and/or…
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Comment #5902229
For some context of how these commands fit in with everything else, here is the overall command usage summary: prog help [COMMAND...] prog init [DIRECTORY] prog import HUB [PATHS..…
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Ask HN: CLI design of import/export commands
I'm developing a distributed project management tool with a command line interface. I have two commands relating to initially copying a project to/from a hub. The export command lo…