Command Line Interface Guidelines

An open-source guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day.

Command Line Interface Guidelines Contents Command Line Interface Guidelines An open-source guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day. Authors Aanand Prasad Engineer at Squarespace, co-creator of Docker Compose. @aanandprasad Ben Firshman Co-founder of Replicate , co-creator of Docker Compose. @bfirsh Carl Tashian Offroad Engineer at Smallstep , first engineer at Zipcar, co-founder Trove. tashian.com @tashian Eva Parish Technical Writer at Squarespace, O'Reilly contributor. evaparish.com @evpari Design by Mark

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