/Command Line

The Poetics Of CLI Command Names

- Carl Tashian tl;dr: Examples of naming anti-patterns (e.g. tool, kit, easy, util) and strong names (e.g. vim, curl), with reasons why. "None of it matters if your command doesn't actually do something useful."

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An Illustrated Guide to Some Useful Command Line Tools

- Wesley Moore tl;dr: There is a "strong preference for fast tools without a large runtime dependency", most of these are written in Go or Rust.

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