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Good idea. I wonder if anyone has done this for general unix command-line apps by parsing out the man pages on the fly. It probably wouldn't work for all programs but may be gnu style ones would be consistent enough.
How about converting CLI programs into Web based applications ?!!
Really awesome and promising idea, but I think the implementation is limiting. Couldn't it just as well parse help text? It's not guaranteed to be standard, but there are probably more programs that can be parsed that way than use ArgumentParser.
http://docopt.org/ This project attempted to make argument parsing and the help string synonymous. I'm not sure if it is being actively maintained.
How about converting CLI programs into Web based applications ?!!
With a REST API you can call from curl !?
Not sure if my fault, by all images are returning errors, and their folder is 400'ing.
Good idea. I wonder if anyone has done this for general unix command-line apps by parsing out the man pages on the fly. It probably wouldn't work for all programs but may be gnu style ones would be consistent enough.
I too was expecting something like what you describe but by parsing -h --help output.
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/bash-completion/bash-completi...
Really pretty neat especially if your tool might be used by less technical folks. I can't count the number of times people in our engineering department have given non-technical people in our company a command line tool because its easier than adding a GUI, be it native or web. I think this will come in handy in those cases.
You need to write a shell script that runs commands to display the gui, and then execute the command.